electoral fraud

English

Noun

electoral fraud (uncountable)

1. (politics) Illegal interference with the process of an election, especially with the intent to stage a desired election outcome.
   • 1839, Charles Buller, Edward Gibbon Wakefield, The Report and Despatches of the Earl of Durham:

     The taking such measures, in order to secure their fair right of voting to the electors in a particular interest, must be considered rather as an act of official favouritism, than as an electoral fraud.

   • 1882, M. Valentine Chirol, “Bulgaria”, in The Fortnightly Review, volume 36, page 293:

     He has saddled the finances of the Principality with the costs of a huge electoral fraud.

   • 2015, Isabela Mares, From Open Secrets to Secret Voting:

     In addition to the strength of the Social Democratic candidates, I also examined the relationship between other political factors and the incidence of electoral fraud.

Translations

illegal interference with an election

• Catalan: tupinada (ca) f, topinada (ca) f
• Danish: valgsvindel c, valgfusk n (informal)
• Dutch: verkiezingsfraude (nl)
• Finnish: vaalivilppi (fi)
• French: fraude electoral f
• German: Unzulässige Wahlbeeinflussung, Wahlbetrug (de) m
• Greek: καλπονοθεία (el) f (kalponotheía), καλπονόθευση (el) f (kalponóthefsi)
• Hungarian: választási csalás (hu)
• Italian: frode elettorale f
• Japanese: 不正選挙 (ja) (ふせいせんきょ, fusei senkyo)
• Korean: 선거 사기 (seon'geo sagi)
• Latin: fraus electoralis f
• Macedonian: изборна измама f (izborna izmama)
• Norwegian: valgfusk
• Portuguese: fraude eleitoral f
• Russian: нарушения на выборах (narušenija na vyborax)
• Sicilian: brogliu illiturali
• Spanish: pucherazo m, fraude electoral m
• Swedish: valfusk (sv) n