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What does "wanting the sheep vote" mean in this context?

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Native speaker’s answer

Rebecca

As you can see, Assistant Mayor Bellweather is a sheep. She is saying that the Mayor only hired her as his assistant to ensure that other sheep would vote for him in the election. In a real election, while there are no sheep, there are politicians who will campaign in an effort to secure votes from certain subsets of society e.g. ethnic minorities.

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