单词 | faggot vote |
释义 | faggot voten. British Politics. Now historical. A vote for a particular candidate or party fraudulently contrived by nominally transferring sufficient property to a person who would not otherwise be qualified to vote. Also in extended use: any vote considered to be biased or unfairly influenced. Cf. faggot n. 9. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > proceedings at election > [noun] > registering or casting votes > types of voting > types of vote plumper1761 faggot1775 out-vote1790 faggot vote1803 floating vote1847 protest vote1912 tactical vote1974 1803 Morning Post 19 Feb. Mr. Holt White will bring the legality of these faggot votes (as they are vulgarly called) to the decision of a Committee. 1879 Daily News 16 Apr. 2/2 Attempts to tamper with the register by the introduction of what are termed faggot votes. 1942 W. S. Churchill Let. 21 Oct. in Second World War (1986) IV. 504 There would be a faggot vote on the side of the United States in any attempt to liquidate the British overseas Empire. 2013 S. Richardson Polit. Worlds of Women ii. iv. 96 Loopholes in the electoral procedures which allowed the creation of faggot votes..stultified Scottish politics until the late nineteenth century. Derivatives ˈfaggot ˌvoter n. a man enabled to vote by the nominal transfer of property, in order to contrive a vote for a particular candidate or party. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > proceedings at election > [noun] > registering or casting votes > types of voting > one who plumper1761 faggot voter1818 repeater1862 vest-pocket voter1888 swing vote1966 ticket-splitter1972 tactical voter1974 1818 Hampshire Tel. & Sussex Chron. 22 June The ‘Faggot’ voters, who arrived with them from London. 1908 Whitaker's Almanack 438/1 Disqualifications [from voting in parliamentary elections]... Persons with fictitious or collusive qualifications (e.g.fagot voters). 2002 D. W. Hayton House of Commons 1690–1715 146 The election was fought out between stage armies of faggot voters. ˈfaggot ˌvoting n. the action or practice of contriving votes for a particular candidate or party by nominally transferring property in order to entitle men who are not otherwise qualified to vote.In quot. 1914 with reference to hypothetical female voters. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > proceedings at election > [noun] > registering or casting votes > types of voting faggot voting1835 faggotry1841 repeating1888 protest voting1935 ticket-splitting1957 tactical voting1974 1835 Lancaster Gaz. 25 July Fagot Voting... The system pursued by the Duke of Bedford in Huntingdonshire, where his Grace's forty tenants are facetiously called ‘the forty thieves’. 1914 C. Lytton in C. Lytton & J. Warton Prison & Prisoners xv. 312 The [Conciliation] Bill..was slightly modified in 1911, so as to remove any reasonable fear of plural or faggot voting. 2011 R. Saunders Democracy & Vote in Brit. Politics 1848–1867 270 The safeguards against faggot voting were relaxed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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