election rigging
Corrupting ballot outcomes
Election rigging is the manipulation of an election to produce a predetermined outcome.
Methods include stuffing ballot boxes, destroying or altering votes, intimidating voters, suppressing turnout in opposition areas, or tampering with vote-counting systems.
The term implies deliberate fraud rather than procedural irregularities: Opposition leaders accused the regime of rigging the election.
Also called vote rigging or electoral fraud.
- ballot stuffingFraudulent vote inflation
- dead votersDeceased on voter rolls
- vote buyingExchanging money for ballots
- gerrymanderingManipulating electoral boundaries strategically
- voter suppressionTactics discouraging ballot access
antidemocratic · manipulation · disenfranchisement · double voting · electoral fraud · deception · disinformation campaigns · legal challenges · international oversight · whistleblower protections · transparency initiatives · vote tampering · voting machines · stolen · civil unrest · political instability · fraud · power consolidation
- authoritarianismautocracy, absolutism, despotism, dictatorship, totalitarianism
- political tacticscampaigning, gerrymandering, filibuster, campaigns, voter suppression
- political fictiondystopia, utopia, Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1984, dystopian fiction
- power grabscoup d'etat, hostile takeover, military coup, overthrow, palace coup
- Totalitarianismtotalitarianism, one-party state, one-party rule, dictatorship, single-party state
election riggingdemocracy
Rule by the people
democratic governance · rule of law · popular sovereignty · self-determination · consent of the governed
election riggingpopular sovereignty
Populace holds ultimate authority
self-determination · enfranchisement · universal suffrage · civic participation · grassroots democracy