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stuff the ballot box
Idioms and Phrases
Put fraudulent votes in a ballot box, or otherwise cheat in an election. For example, The only way he'll win is if we stuff the ballot box . [Second half of 1800s]Example Sentences
Did our friends in Canada stuff the ballot box?
Today, through bends in the law and sleight of hand by Democratic secretaries of state, Democrats have created a 鈥渟tuff the ballot box鈥 world where absentee and mail-in voting, universal voting, automatic voter registration, drop boxes, ballot harvesting and relaxed signature match procedures have blown open the doors to fraud.
But perhaps the most essential piece of the Big Lie was the insistence that mail-in voting was a corrupt Democratic scheme to steal elections by "harvesting" ballots, meaning that someone could stuff the ballot box with illegitimate votes.
Event organizers said that someone tried to stuff the ballot box with fake votes in 747鈥檚 semifinal round on Sunday against 435.
In response to an email seeking comment sent to the website鈥檚 contact email address, a person who did not give their name said the effort is 鈥渁 collaboration of citizens both on the left and the right鈥 which seeks 鈥渢o ensure that our legalized ballot harvesting rule is not abused by those who seek to stuff the ballot box.鈥
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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