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faggot-vote|ˈfægətvəʊt|
[App. a transferred use of faggot n. 7, ‘dummy’ soldier; as many faggot-votes were often created at one time by the practice (forbidden in 7 & 8 Will. III. c. 25) of subdividing a single tenement among a number of nominal owners, the word was naturally interpreted as alluding to the primary sense ‘bundle of sticks’.]
A vote manufactured for party purposes, by the transfer to persons, not otherwise legally qualified, of sufficient property to qualify them as electors.
1817Sir F. Burdett in Parl. Deb. 1368 Lord Lonsdale had conveyed to him a certain property, on which he was to vote in that borough, as, what was familiarly called a faggot vote. 1836Disraeli Lett. Runnymede 60 Notwithstanding..your father's fagot votes. 1879Daily News 16 Apr. 2/2 Attempts to tamper with the register by the introduction of what are termed faggot votes.
Hence faggot-voter, -voting.
1880Gladstone in Pall Mall G. 14 July 2/1 The subject of the fagot voter. 1887Times (weekly ed.) 28 Oct. 7/2 The question of faggot-voting. |