While warnings from law enforcement are a standard procedural step, they rarely address the desperation that pushes young people toward political thuggery in the first place. These youths are often struggling with unemployment and a lack of economic opportunity, which makes them easy targets for political actors looking to protect their interests through intimidation. If we truly want to stop electoral violence, the focus must shift from merely threatening the foot soldiers to aggressively prosecuting the high-level sponsors who fund and weaponize them. Until the political elite face real consequences for financing these acts, warnings will likely remain toothless deterrents that fail to disrupt the cycle of violence. True change will only come when we hold the architects of this chaos accountable rather than just the young people they exploit.