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stuff the ballot box en · VERB
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(idiomatic) To commit fraud in an election by depositing extra or otherwise illegitimate ballots into the container holding the ballots of voters, in an attempt to secure victory for a particular candidate or outcome.
Several council officials were convicted of stuffing the ballot box in 1996 to guarantee approval of a widely disliked contract.
2002 February 27, Steven Greenhouse, “Trustee Ends His Oversight Of District 37”, in New York Times, retrieved 05 Apr 2013:Their simplest and most effective scheme is to create a disturbance during which they can stuff the ballot box as they tried to last night.
1906 September 28, “Decent Democracy Downs Dorneyism”, in The News-Democrat, Rhode Island, USA, retrieved 05 Apr 2013, page 3:Two fruitless ballots were taken, when the chairman of the board of tellers, stepping to the platform, said: "I find that attempts have been made to stuff the ballot-box."
1888 May 24, “Electing the Bishops”, in Baltimore American, retrieved 05 Apr 2013, page 4:Republicans were said to have stuffed the ballot box with illegal votes, and the Democrats were accused of a lot of things too.
1976 November 2, “Town Recalls ‘Decisive’ Vote”, in Daytona Beach Morning Journal, retrieved 05 Apr 2013, page 3B:
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ballot stuffer · ballot stuffing