Electoral fraud

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 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.