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Revision as of 21:22, November 1, 2008
Electoral fraud is the criminal manipulation of elections to secure the supposed victory of a candidate who, had the election been conducted legally and fairly, would not have won.
Many forms of electoral fraud have been recorded. These include:
- 'personation': voters assuming the identity of a registered voter (sometimes a recently deceased voter)
- interference with ballot boxes
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Election fraud is rampant in third world countries. Example's include the re-election of dictator Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe in 2008, and the sham elections for Saddam Hussein as president of Iraq in the 1990s.