election fraud
- noun
- /ɪˈlɛkʃən frɔd/
- To date, there have been no known instances of election fraud in online elections.
And so that kind of election fraud must not happen again.
- And so that kind of election fraud must not happen again.
- Lindell is being sued by Dominion Voting Systems for a billion dollars for his lies about election fraud.
- So late yesterday, the Justice Department broke news via The Associated Press that the Justice Department is going to open an election fraud case.
- Apparently, if the Supreme Court decides to hear President Trump's last ditch election fraud case, Trump has said that he wants her to appear as a witness again.
- So it's great to hear that you've really looked into the, the, the Trump election fraud claims.
- This is despite Donald Trump doubling down with the investigations into alleged voter fraud and election fraud.
- Your own current attorney general who's a Republican, called the election fraud claims made by Katie Hobbs opponent horse crap.
- In fact, this lawsuit may not have even gotten anywhere had Fox News actually bluntly believed in the election fraud claims.
Examples
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Authorities are taking measures to prevent election fraud in the upcoming election after last year's issues.
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So late yesterday, the Justice Department broke news via The Associated Press that the Justice Department is going to open an election fraud case.
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And so that kind of election fraud must not happen again.
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There have been numerous attempts to prove election fraud.
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Numerous reports of vote buying and other forms of election fraud emerged.
Academic text (1992) -
They wanted their elected leaders to adjudicate the claims of election fraud.
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The Florida party bosses also filed a formal election fraud complaint against their own vendor.
Blog text (25) -
The current meme is election fraud because there is no way Romney could have lost without fraud.
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People who observe election fraud have commented that absentee ballot fraud or mail ballot fraud is the easiest and the most common type of election fraud.
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The investigation revealed multiple instances of election fraud that compromised the integrity of the vote.
How Serious
- Literature
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is compositionally derived from 'election' (the voting process) + 'fraud' (a deceptive or dishonest act); putting them together naturally yields deceptive or illegal interference in an election. This noun-noun construction is regular in English and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should be able to infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The phrase election fraud gives a clear image: an election, the voting, where someone uses fraud, meaning cheating, for example by adding extra ballots or changing vote counts to make the wrong person win. That's why it means 'illegal interference with the process or results of an election'.