booth capturing
n.— «The men had carried out a new version of a storied Indian electoral trick: “booth capturing,” in which armed thugs hired by political parties seize control of a polling place and stuff ballot boxes. » —“On New Voting Machine, the Same Old Fraud” by Davie Rohde New York Times Apr. 27, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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