ELECTORAL FRAUD

  

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ELECTORAL FRAUD

Specialty Definition: ELECTORAL FRAUD

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Law

An offence against the will of the people in which a person forges, falsifies, removes or destroys an electoral register, participates in an election or a vote, or signs a request for a referendum or an initiative without authority, or falsifies the results of an election or vote or a petition requesting a referendum or initiative. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Electoral fraud

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Electoral fraud is the deliberate interference with the process of an election.

It can take many forms

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Electoral fraud."

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Non-Fiction Usage: ELECTORAL FRAUD

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Philippines

The election was marred by widespread electoral fraud on the part of Marcos and his supporters. (references)

Guyana

The PNC, which won just under 40% of the vote, disputed the results of the 1997 elections, alleging electoral fraud. (references)

Algeria

On the eve of the election, all candidates except Abdelaziz Bouteflika pulled out amid charges of widespread electoral fraud. (references)

Human Rights

Yugoslavia

On November 2, Minister Batic announced the dismissal of 128 judges and 69 magistrates on the grounds of general incompetence; of these, 58 were accused of involvement in electoral fraud, political trials, and the illegal expropriation of real estate. (references)

Political Economy

Guinea

The ruling PUP and its allies won 32 of the 38 communes, amid opposition charges of electoral fraud and malfeasance. (references)

Sudan

Presidential and parliamentary elections were held in December 1993. All major opposition parties boycotted the elections, and there were allegations of official interference and electoral fraud. (references)

Political Rights

Armenia

There were no legal consequences for electoral fraud. (references)

Lesotho

In both cases, opposition party members alleged electoral fraud, suborned army supporters, sought the King's involvement, and effectively overthrew the elected Government. (references)

Sri Lanka

In response to sharp criticism about the way that the 1999 vote was conducted, the President appointed a commission staffed by two retired judges to evaluate allegations of electoral fraud. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Modern Translation: ELECTORAL FRAUD

Language Translations for "ELECTORAL FRAUD"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

valgsvindel (illegal practices at elections, voting offences). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

fraude door kiezers of door leden van het stembureau (illegal practices at elections, voting offences). (various references)

   

French

  

la fraude électorale (illegal practices at elections), fraude électorale. (various references)

   

German

  

Wahlfälschung, die Wahlfälschung (illegal practices at elections, voting offences), der Wahlschwindel (illegal practices at elections, voting offences), der Wahlbetrug (illegal practices at elections, voting offences). (various references)

   

Italian

  

le frodi elettorali (illegal practices at elections, voting offences), il delitto di falsità in atti elettorali (illegal practices at elections, voting offences), i delitti di frode nel procedimento elettorale (illegal practices at elections, voting offences), i brogli elettorali (illegal practices at elections, voting offences), frode elettorale. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

electoralay audfray

   

Portuguese

  

fraude eleitoral (illegal practices at elections, voting offences). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: ELECTORAL FRAUD

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-e-e-f-l-l-o-r-r-t-u"

-3 letters: reallocated.

-4 letters: carefuller, cofeatured, correlated, defalcator, edulcorate, reallocate.

-5 letters: adulterer, aftercare, allocated, cofeature, corelated, corralled, correlate, creatural, deaerator, decollate, defalcate, defaulter, deflector, electoral, fractured, lacerated, lateraled, laureated, reflector, refloated, refracted, relocated, ulcerated, ultracold, urceolate.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: ELECTORAL FRAUD


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 4C 45 43 54 4F 52 41 4C      46 52 41 55 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01001100 01000101 01000011 01010100 01001111 01010010 01000001 01001100 00100000 01000110 01010010 01000001 01010101 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#76 &#69 &#67 &#84 &#79 &#82 &#65 &#76 &#32 &#70 &#82 &#65 &#85 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 004C 0045 0043 0054 004F 0052 0041 004C      0046 0052 0041 0055 0044

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

39463937544952354624052355538

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INDEX

1. Quotations: Non-fiction
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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