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'''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 another registered voter (sometimes a recently deceased voter)
* registration of non-existent voters (e.g. "Mickey Mouse")
* multiple voting by the same individual (for example by using a postal vote as well as voting on election day)
* interference with ballot boxes
* fraudulent voting by non-citizens or felons
* bribery of election officials or poll workers
* intentional miscounting of votes by biased election officials
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Election fraud is rampant under [[dictatorship]]s, which use rigged elections to consolidate their leaders' power. Examples include the re-election of [[Robert Mugabe]] in [[Zimbabwe]] in 2008, and the sham elections for [[Saddam Hussein]] as president of [[Iraq]] in the 1990s.
[[Category:Politics]]