It's not ATE.
I made the exact same argument at the end of papers, please, when I was town
and the mech clear townies suspected me.
I said, tomorrow is eliminate or lose, so you have to resolve me today.
It wasnt ATE then, it was just the logical way to win the game.
They decided not to vote me, and then we voted the final wolf and won instead.
But
if they dunked me, then im not alive in final 3 or final 4, so they can just dunk the final wolf then.
It's important that town doesn't have town-on-town suspicions in the eliminate or lose round.
If they do, they eliminate a town, and lose. Thus why its called eliminate (wolf) or lose round.
Simple simple. I have no defense against a wrong allegation, I have my iso which is villagery, and my mech claim, which makes me town.
If that's not enough, my flip today proves I'm town, and that means you can find the wolves tomorrow.