cooping
Word-form referencescoop
Pronunciations
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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.
Usage- Uncountable
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The restriction (1835) of the time of voting to one day reduced the practice of cooping.
Cooping, the political version of the shanghai, involved kidnapping citizens […]
More examples (2)
The Tories also engaged in "cooping," intimidating people into voting Tory.
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).