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Ballot stuffing. Of course, some degree of this happens for every election in a large enough city or state. The question is whether it's widespread enough to truly influence the results of the election. Still, expect the losing side to cry foul play even in relatively clean elections. This trope occurs frequently as an example of Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat, when the winning side does it even when they would have won anyway. One variety involves "ghost voting," which is where people stuff the ballot box with the names of people who had in fact died sometime before the election, usually those who were recently deceased. This variant in particular is often associated with the city of Chicago, leading to jokes about Chicago being a place where people come back from the grave to vote. This should not be confused with a Military Coup, which is where the military of a country or some elements of it attempt to remove the current leader by force. Real Life political examples must be at least thirty years old to be added. |
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There's a section about this in one of the Sten books. It gets disrupted by 'Raschid', in a rather hilarious manner. 'Raschid' is actually the Eternal Emperor, and being several thousand years old, has rather more experience with politics and corrupt elections than anyone else. | |
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The Undeclared War: Inverted, with voter suppression instead appearing to happen in the last episode as Black and Asian British voters are knocked off the rolls, causing protests all over the UK. | |
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Inverted in Skins - Harriet and Doug only count the class president votes for Naomi and Crispin, knowing Cook received the most and not wanting him to win. However, Naomi secretly witnessed the decision, and when they declare her "the winner," she pulls Cook's ballots out of Harriet's bra. | |
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Cheers had an example similar to the Parks And Recreation example when they held a drawing to decide that night's designated driver. | |
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In Copper, set in 1860s New York City, had one character in charge of giving out alcohol, wigs and fake names to all the 'frequent voters' to help 'Irish' Jake McGinnis win. | |
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The Simpsons: Sideshow Bob defeats Mayor Quimby by rigging the election with a large number of ballots cast by dead people, and even some by dead pets. Finding Snowball I's vote for Bob prompts Lisa to say that this time, It's Personal. The episode strongly implied that he would have won against Quimby anyway; even Homer and Krusty voted for Bob and polls were overwhelmingly in his favor. Bart was implied to have somehow cast his vote for Krusty to become the Congressman for Springfield despite being 10 years old and thus ineligible to vote. Also inverted once: When Homer's high school principal discovered that Homer had been elected class president, he had Lenny and Carl hide the ballot box because he didn't want Homer to win. The principal's reason was in Homer's best interest to save him from humiliation, he'd heard some of the popular students planning to vote for Homer, then laugh at him when he got up on stage. Unfortunately, this backfires as it's shown that if Homer had won, he'd gain the support of his fellow high schoolers, become the most popular kid in school (while still ending up with Marge, but also on Patty and Selma's good side), and he'd be on the fast track to a great life... without Bart, Lisa, and Maggie, since there would be no accidental pregnancies. Homer was once elected king of the parade. Sideshow Bob attempts to warn Homer that he only won because someone (most likely Homer's assassin) stuffed the ballot box. |
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Played with in a Parks and Recreation episode. They select the name of someone out of a hat to decide who has to do an unenviable task. It turns out everyone puts in Jerry's name rather than their own. Except Leslie Knope, who put in her own name... and several more of Jerry's. | |
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When Oswald ran for mayor on Gotham, he attempted this only for Edward to intercept the extra votes. Oswald wins anyway and Edward says he wanted Oswald to see he could win legitimately. | |
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The election night newsreel in Of Thee I Sing shows John P. Wintergreen casting ballots for himself at more than one polling place. When he needs only four more votes to win, he casts all four of them. It's no wonder that his (unnamed) defeated opponent charges him with voter fraud in seven states. | |
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RWBY: In volume 7, Jacques Schnee seems to be losing the election for Council seat pretty hard, at 30%-70%. Over the course of the episode, the gap slowly closes, and by the end Jacques has edged out a victory. Watts was manipulating the election results, and likely would have been found out quickly, but he also staged an attempted assassination and the increased negativity also drew a huge wave of Grimm to the city. In the confusion, no one has time to worry about the suspicious election. | |
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unOrdinary: Terrence used his invisibility to take out a bunch of the Safe House votes for going downtown and stuffing a bunch for hiking in the ballot box, in order for the group to split with Blyke being with few others and no others with much fighting ability and be out of cell phone range on a hike for Specter to abduct him using the other Safe House members as hostages. | |
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Doonesbury: When Garry Trudeau put the question of which university Alex Doonesbury would attend to an online poll, MIT won hands down, as their students were very good at circumventing the blocks put up by Doonesbury Town Hall to flood the poll with their votes. | |
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Pilgrennon's Children: In Pilgrennon's Beacon, the supercomputer Cerberus submits votes from nonexistent people to keep the current government in power. | |
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On the Dream SMP, Fundy attempts to rig the votes for the L'Manburg Presidential Election in favour of his party, Coconut2020, with approximately 120,000 fraudulent votes being supplied from the same IP address.note Note that this was done without his running mate, Niki's knowledge. This gets defied when the fraudulent votes are disqualified during the election in the end, as he would have otherwise won the election if the fraudulent votes weren't disqualified. After the Disaster Dominoes that ensued in canon, many fans joke that none of the much more serious arcs following the Elections would have happened had the content creators just allowed Coconut2020 to commit voter fraud. | |
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While there are no opportunities to follow the letter of the trope in Fallout 3, there is an opportunity to manipulate election results to help the candidate you want win (it just involves removing votes for the other candidates) in the Republic of Dave. Given that the current president (Dave) has some rather questionable policies and electoral rules in place, you may even feel morally justified in doing so. | |
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Hope Was Here: Hope works on the mayoral campaign for an underdog candidate. After her candidate loses the election, Hope looks over a list of voters and spots the name of a curmudgeonly man who had loudly insisted that he never voted. When she goes to congratulate him on turning out for the election, he insists that he didn't. She turns up enough discrepancies like this to force the incumbent mayor to resign. | |
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Dogbert in a Dilbert comic: | |
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In one episode of Grange Hill, a student helping to tally the votes in a student council election is introduced to the concept of 'spoiled ballots'. He then proceeds to destroy a large number of ballots in an attempt to grant his favoured candidate the win. He is found out because his number of spoiled ballots is so much higher than any other tallyer. | |
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Animaniacs (1993): Discussed briefly in one of the "Wheel of Morality" segments. The moral of the day, according to the wheel, is "Vote early and vote often". Dot's response is "How profound". Wakko's is to try to buy a vowel. | |
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An episode of DiC's Care Bears has Professor Coldheart employing this tactic to win the Mayor-for-a-Day election, promising "a holiday for rules". | |
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Sensation Comics Wonder Woman: The Blue Seal Gang offers to fix the mayoral election for Rita Novelle in return for ten thousand dollars, and when she kicks them out of her office tell her they're going to ensure she loses and put her in the morgue for defying them. Despite their rather violent attempts to inverse this with voter suppression of her supporters she wins anyway and then survives the following assassination attempt. | |
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The title character in The Great McGinty first comes to people's attention when he votes for the mayor 37 times. Of course, he only did it on the promise he'd get paid $2 for each vote, but still. | |
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Sonic Boom: When questioned on how Eggman was nominated for a good citizenship award in My Fair Sticksy, we get a cutaway to Eggman using a purpose built robot to stuff the ballot box. | |
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Election does this in reverse. While counting ballots, Mr. McAllister throws two votes for Tracy in the garbage in an attempt to deny her the victory. | |
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Hairspray and 2007 remake: Amber's mother stuffs the ballots so Amber will be the lead dancer on The Corny Collins Show. Not only are there enough legitimate votes for Little Inez that Amber loses regardless, Mrs. Turnblad sees her doing it and manages an Engineered Public Confession. | |
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Shortpacked!: Inverted; Robyn loses her re-election because Mike was running the election booth in her home district, and simply didn't turn in the ballots. Without such a key part of her voter base, she didn't have a chance. | |
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Gangs of New York. | |
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In Tropico, the electoral tribunal can interpret a fraction of opposition... er misprint ballots as votes in favor of "El Presidente". The fraud has some minor drawbacks but it is rarely needed outside the first game. | |
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Dan Halen of Squidbillies reveals this to be another reason he cloned the town sheriff. Initially, presented as a means to control the county's law enforcement with Expendable Clones, he later uses them to try win an ballot initiative to legalize alcohol. | |
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Miller's Crossing. | |
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KaBlam!: In "Going the Extra Mile", Ryan wins a contest where one lucky fan gets to spend the day on the set of the show with Henry and June. At the end of the episode, it is revealed that Ryan stuffed many ballots with his name into a box at a local mini-mart through security camera footage that Henry and June show the viewers. | |
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In the Murdoch Mysteries episode "Election Day", identifying the Victim of the Week is complicated by the fact he was voting under a false name. | |
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In Scandal a major plot point is that the US Presidential election was stolen by hacking the control cards on voting machines. The matter is complicated by the fact that the winning candidate was not aware of the fraud and actually sees it as a personal betrayal. | |
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In season one of Boss Tom Kane's chosen candidate for governor is projected to lose the primary but Kane is not going to let that happen. He starts calling in favours and making deals with local ward bosses. A massive sabotage and misinformation campaign ensues where the other candidate's campaign signs are stolen and his supporters are directed to non-existing voting locations. There probably is no actual ballot box stuffing but the effect is similar. | |
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In one episode of Recess, Randall stuffs his name into the ballot box for the "Principal for a Day" contest, and when the winner is announced he starts giving a speech. But as it transpires, Principal Prickly rigged it so TJ would win, instead, much to everybody's shock. | |
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In Batman: The Animated Series, Harvey Dent, while running for office of DA, reminds Gothamites, to "vote early, vote often. Just in different elections." | |
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The Murder, She Wrote episode "The Cemetery Vote" centers around a corrupt politician who was rumored to have carried 'The Cemetery Vote' (in other words, picked up fraud votes from people who were dead prior to the election). | |
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Inverted in the first Futurama movie where it's shown that the reason Al Gore lost the 2000 election was because Bender, in his hunt for Fry, blew up the box containing all his votes. | |
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Homeless drifter Puggy is recruited for this in Big Trouble along with a collection of other lowlifes. The are brought to the voting center(s) and told for who to vote in front of the ballot officials, who don't bat an eye. Of course, all this happens in Miami, and political corruption is a major part of the book. | |
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All in the Family had a contest for a beautiful baby, and Archie was quite willing to ensure victory. At the end of the episode Baby Joey and Baby Linda were both disqualified for too many phony votes. The group running the contest got a little suspicious, found that a judge signed a vote form, even though he was in jail three weeks ago. | |
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At the end of the last Temeraire novel, the titular dragon realizes that one of the new Parliamentary districts for dragons currently has a draconic population of zero. He decides to move there so he can run for public office and win in a walk. | |
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In Wendell & Wild, the Klaxons plan to get their private prison approved by literally using the dead Old Guard as voters in favor of it. When the vote happens, this is represented by the revived members strolling in, casting their vote, and immediately leaving. | |
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An online vote for the best children's cartoon of 2013 had many worthy candidates, including Young Justice, Steven Universe, Gravity Falls and others. The general numbers for the voting were around 20-40 thousand each ... until you noticed My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, which had in the region of 1.5 million. This was not helped by a) diehard bronies and b) older voters noticing that the site didn't stop you at one vote. One wonders if the site moderators noticed the disturbing discrepancy. | |
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Standard for elections in The Wizard of Id. | |
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When the Dark Lord decides he wants to win by election in Grunts!, General Ashnak and his orc marines decide to help matters along a bit, just in case the Supreme Power Of Evil can't win over the population with his speeches. | |
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Pocket, or Rotten, Boroughs were Parliamentary constituencies in the UK where, due to irregular redistricting and strict franchising requirements, there were only a handful of registered voters in the area. This made it easy to buy or rig elections in those districts. The Blackadder example listed in Live-Action TV is an exaggeration, but this problem was real until efforts were made to correct it in the mid-19th century. | |
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Boardwalk Empire based its main character, Nucky Thompson, on real-life Atlantic City politician Nucky Johnson, who was effectively that city's version of Boss Tweed. | |
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Mentioned in An American Tail where the drunken Irish (mouse) Mayor of New York City attends the funeral of another mouse and notes that he was too young to vote, "But he'll vote from now on" and puts his name in a book of "ghost voters". Said mouse ("Honest" John) was a pretty obvious reference to the Tammany Hall political machine. | |
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In Black Sheep (1996), Al loses the election and Mike assumes it's his fault. Then the results for the county where he and Steve were hiding out come in and he realizes that the total number of votes for that county exceeds the number of voters. He then sets out to fix this. | |
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Done in The Stainless Steel Rat For President by both the Anti-Hero and the planetary dictator he's trying to overthrow. | |
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Years after the fact in the Safehold novels, a great many people find it interesting that the person who was in charge of counting the votes in the election that appointed Zaspahr Clyntahn as Grand Inquisitor would end up becoming his right hand man, and wonder if Clynthan had actually won the election at all. | |
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Mentioned in Catching Trouble when it appeared on Mystery Science Theater 3000: | |
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From Inherit the Wind, regarding three-time presidential also-ran Matthew Harrison Brady: | |
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In Battlestar Galactica out of fears that he'd lead them to disaster, President Roslin attempts to prevent Baltar from winning the fleet's first (and only) election by replacing the ballots from one ship with fakes. She gets caught due to a typo, on the original ballots but not on the fakes, and is forced to step down. Her fears turn out to be justified when he has them colonize a marginally habitable planet, then leaves everyone to suffer in tents in a cold swamp while he loses himself in a stupor of drug abuse and sex for an entire year until the Cylons find them. | |
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Eddy in Ed, Edd n Eddy tries it when he runs for "king of the cul-de-sac", but Edd anticipated that and replaces the real ballot box with a fake one. | |
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Done for comedy in Insecticomics. In an attempt to diversify the cast, Terrorsaur repaint Lazorbeak's gender was put up to vote. The Insecticons, being portrayed as playful but troublemaking trolls instead of the Horde of Alien Locusts they are in canon, sabotage the whole affair by voting millions of times each, with the end result that Lazorbeak ended up arbitrarily considered female due to comical levels of election fraud. | |
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In one episode of The Munsters, the subplot involved Herman and Grandpa attempting to manipulate the upcoming city election using Grandpa's magic voting booth so that Herman's votes would be registered in every voting booth in the city. Unfortunately, it fails when Herman pulls on the lever, causing the booth to act as a shower stall. | |
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In Veronica Mars, a school election is rigged when different classrooms were given conflicting instructions on how to fill out the scan-tron sheets that were used as ballots. | |
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Prickly City disdains this. The dead voted for Kevin, but only once. It's not Chicago after all. | |
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Yogi Bear and the Magical Flight of the Spruce Goose: When the heroes vote over rescuing Dread Baron and Mumbly or not, each side gets 8 votes in spite of there being only 10 voters. | |
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American Idol is one of the most common targets of this in the US, especially due to the fact that people are indeed allowed to vote as many times as they want. A number of people have exploited this by employing "robo-calls" and "power-texting" to make thousands of votes — completely legal under AI rules, and often balanced out by different robo-callers voting for different contestants. What pushes the show into this trope, however, is a series of controversies over the fairness of the voting, most notably an incident in the season 8 finale involving AT&T (one of AI's sponsors) that may have cost Adam Lambert the victory. See here for more. | |
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Ars Magica: Within the Order of Hermes, the Rhine Tribunal abuses the rules for proxy voting to award Masters and Archmages extra voting sigils from retired or dead magi, allowing elders to accumulate and bequeath a vast number of votes. When challenged, the Rhine elders voted to make it legal in the Tribunal. Rather than go to war over it, the Order's law enforcement agents decided to block the practice from spreading to other Tribunals while they wait for a chance to knock the system down in the Rhine. | |
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Mission: Impossible: In "Wheels", the IMF has to prevent a case of electoral fraud in a Banana Republic in order to ensure a fair result to the election. | |
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In Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Salem mentions that he helped Nixon get elected: | |
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In Justified the standard version is averted since the citizens of Harlan County are savvy enough that you cannot steal an election by stuffing the ballot box. Instead the candidates have to resort to other dirty tricks like bribing voters with alcohol and sexual favors, rigging debates by bribing the moderator and having the opposition disqualified by framing them for car bombings, drug dealing and nepotism. | |
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Happens in Strontium Dog when they announcer a random draw to see who earns the right to a special bounty. Being (mostly) amoral bounty hunters EVERYONE tries to cheat. One attempt is switching out the box for one stuffed with only their name. | |
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Gravity Falls: While running for mayor in "The Stanchurian Candidate" stuffing the ballot box is one of the first things Grunkle Stan does, though since Gravity Falls uses birdseed instead of paper ballots it has no impact on the results whatsoever. | |
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