cooping

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

Noun

  1. The practice of forcing unwilling participants to vote, often several times over, for a particular candidate in an election.
    • 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:
    • The Tories also engaged in "cooping," intimidating people into voting Tory. - 2001, Paul Knepper, Explaining criminal conduct: theories and systems in criminology:

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of coop