DCHP-3

telegraph

[< Cdn F télégrapher]
Que., Slang
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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v.

vote more than once in an election by impersonating other voters, usually ones who are dead, sick, late, or away from home.

Quotations

1962
A Montreal M.P. tells of being approached recently by a man who offered to telegraph votes for him "I voted against you seven times in the last election . . . let me even it up this time."