Phrases
stuff the ballot box
chiefly US
: to attempt to control the outcome of an election by having multiple illegitimate votes cast in support of the desired candidate
They said the vote-rigging included stuffing ballot boxes, buying votes and absent names on the voter rolls.—
Sonia Verma
Sonia VermaBy a margin of just 277 votes (some say ballot boxes were stuffed), Brooklyn, the nation's fourth-largest city, had voted to give up its proud and independent history.—James Sterngold
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But there have already been reports that these watermarks can be erased, and that Sora 2 has generated fake scenes of a man stuffing a ballot box or of people committing non-existent crimes.
—Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2025
Machado had been poised to challenge him at the ballot box.
—Barney Henderson, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
But those competitive races still aren't expected to draw masses to the ballot box.
—Hannah Pinski, Louisville Courier Journal, 9 Oct. 2025
Half a world away, in the United States, political life, as expressed on college campuses, in street protests, and at the ballot box, would be upended and reordered in ways that will reverberate for years to come.
—Ian Crouch, New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2025
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Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2025
Machado had been poised to challenge him at the ballot box.
—Barney Henderson, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
But those competitive races still aren't expected to draw masses to the ballot box.
—Hannah Pinski, Louisville Courier Journal, 9 Oct. 2025
Half a world away, in the United States, political life, as expressed on college campuses, in street protests, and at the ballot box, would be upended and reordered in ways that will reverberate for years to come.
—Ian Crouch, New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for ballot box
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“Ballot box.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ballot%20box. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.
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