cooping

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/ˈkuːpɪŋ/

noun

The practice of forcing unwilling participants to vote, often several times over, for a particular candidate in an election.

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Meanings

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of coop
nouncooping (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe practice of forcing unwilling participants to vote, often several times over, for a particular candidate in an election.

    The Tories also engaged in "cooping," intimidating people into voting Tory.

    2001, Paul Knepper, Explaining criminal conduct: theories and systems in criminology
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    The restriction (1835) of the time of voting to one day reduced the practice of cooping.

    1907, William Page, The Victoria history of the county of Suffolk, volume 2

    Cooping, the political version of the shanghai, involved kidnapping citizens […]

    1977, Aubrey C. Land, Lois Green Carr, Edward C. Papenfuse, Morris Leon Radoff, Law, society, and politics in early Maryland

    Since then, there have been many other theories, including death from delirium tremens, mugging, and "cooping" (the electioneering practice of kidnapping and holding people in rooms, plying them with alcohol and/or opium and then forcing them to vote repeatedly at different locations).

    2014, Corinna Wagner, editor, Gothic Evolutions: Poetry, Tales, Context, Theory

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