I don't think there's anything wrong with bringing new people and trying to get them engaged, but if you want to make a fight by trying to kick out people "in the name of democracy", nobody stops you from trying.
However, I do think it is a lack of respect to my friends to call them "puppets". They are free-thinking people like you and me and should be perfectly allowed to join this game as such.
They are puppets. I'm not going to duck around just because they're your friends. It's no different to me signing up my parents/siblings and telling them to vote for me in a virtual election because you know I'm a cool guy.
Puppets don't vote for whoever they want, they vote for whoever they're told to vote for.
the fact that all "three" cast literally identical ballots would seem to render this statement irrelevant