booth capturing
n.— «The general secretary of the Congress Party, Malik Mohiuddin, said the National Conference Party had destroyed “the very fiber of the democratic system in the country by its alleged large-scale rigging and booth capturing.”» —“Gandhi Party Demands New Voting in Kashmir” New York Times June 10, 1983. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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