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stuff the ballot box
Idioms and Phrases
Put fraudulent votes in a ballot box, or otherwise cheat in an election. For example, The only way he'll win is if we stuff the ballot box . [Second half of 1800s]Example Sentences
Did our friends in Canada stuff the ballot box?
Today, through bends in the law and sleight of hand by Democratic secretaries of state, Democrats have created a “stuff the ballot box†world where absentee and mail-in voting, universal voting, automatic voter registration, drop boxes, ballot harvesting and relaxed signature match procedures have blown open the doors to fraud.
But perhaps the most essential piece of the Big Lie was the insistence that mail-in voting was a corrupt Democratic scheme to steal elections by "harvesting" ballots, meaning that someone could stuff the ballot box with illegitimate votes.
Event organizers said that someone tried to stuff the ballot box with fake votes in 747’s semifinal round on Sunday against 435.
In response to an email seeking comment sent to the website’s contact email address, a person who did not give their name said the effort is “a collaboration of citizens both on the left and the right†which seeks “to ensure that our legalized ballot harvesting rule is not abused by those who seek to stuff the ballot box.â€
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