ballot stuffing
Casting fake votes
Ballot stuffing is the fraudulent practice of casting illegitimate votes to skew an election's outcome.
The image is of literally stuffing extra ballots into a ballot box.
The term extends to any manipulation that inflates vote counts: The union election was invalidated due to ballot stuffing.
Also used figuratively for rigging any voting process.
- vote buyingExchanging money for ballots
- paper trailDocumentary evidence chain
- briberyCorrupt payment for influence
- election riggingFraudulent outcome manipulation
- double votingCasting multiple ballots illegally
stuff the box · dead voters · electoral fraud · voting irregularities · voter impersonation · disenfranchisement · polling station · booth · poll watcher · election observer · vote tampering · recount · vote rigging · illegal voting · whistleblower protections · judicial review · criminal charges · gerrymandering
- politicsdemocracy, campaigning, campaigns, democrats, bill
- corruptioncorruption, graft, kickbacks, bribery, bribes
- dirty trickscheating, lying, deceit, trickery, deception
- authoritarianismautocracy, absolutism, despotism, dictatorship, totalitarianism
- election fraudelection fraud, voter fraud, vote rigging, rigged elections, rigged election
- election problemsmiscount, overvote, undervote, voter fraud, double voting
ballot stuffingelection integrity
Trustworthiness of voting systems
election monitoring · voter verification · ballot security · chain of custody