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[Futurama] Why can robots vote?

In the episode "A Head in the Polls" Nixon gets elected because of the robot vote. However in the episode "Free Will Hunting" its stated that no robots have free will, couldn't someone (like Mom) just manufacture a ton of robots to vote for themselves?
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This gets into the murky question of what free will actually means.  The robots are clearly capable of independent decision-making, but presumably their decision-making is ultimately deterministic, even though it's unpredictable and only controllable in very limited ways.

I've always had the theory that AI in Futurama is emergent rather than programmed.  Generally when we see a programmed action such as Bender's patriotism chip, it's something that goes against the robot's mind rather than something that's a part of it.

I believe that AIs are somehow "grown" rather than engineered.  The most programmers can do is input powerful "suggestions", which are analogous to the way that extreme hunger "suggests" a human eat something even if they don't consciously want to.

EDIT:  Also, let's not forget that Futurama is a crapsack world.  Momcorp could have lobbied to give robots the vote with exactly the plan you describe in mind.