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electoral fraud
Sign in to saveAlso known as election fraud, voting fraud, election rigging, vote rigging, rigged election, rigged vote, ballot stuffing, voter fraud
illegal interference with the process of an election, either by increasing the vote share of the favored candidate, depressing the vote share of the rival candidates, or both
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- Subclass of
- fraud
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- Commons category
- Electoral fraud
- topic's main category
- Category:Electoral fraud
- facet of
- public election
- partially coincident with
- political corruption
- handled, mitigated, or managed by
- election monitoring
- described at URL
- wikispooks.com/wiki/Election/Fraud
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Electoral fraud, sometimes referred to as voter fraud, election manipulation, election scam, vote rigging, or election stealing, involves illegal interference with the process of an election, either by increasing the vote share of a favored candidate, depressing the vote share of rival candidates, or both. It differs from but often goes hand-in-hand with voter suppression. What exactly constitutes electoral fraud varies from country to country, though the goal is often election subversion.
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