Meaning of stuff the ballot box | Babel Free

Definitions

To commit fraud in an election by depositing extra or otherwise illegitimate ballots into the container holding the ballots of voters, in an attempt to secure victory for a particular candidate or outcome.

idiomatic

Examples

“Two fruitless ballots were taken, when the chairman of the board of tellers, stepping to the platform, said: "I find that attempts have been made to stuff the ballot-box."”

“Their simplest and most effective scheme is to create a disturbance during which they can stuff the ballot box as they tried to last night.”

“Republicans were said to have stuffed the ballot box with illegal votes, and the Democrats were accused of a lot of things too.”

“Several council officials were convicted of stuffing the ballot box in 1996 to guarantee approval of a widely disliked contract.”

CEFR level