Cooping
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title:
Cooping
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Cooping was a form of electoral fraud in the United States, often cited in relation to the death of Edgar Allan Poe in October 1849, by which citizens were kidnapped off the street and forced to vote, often several times over, for an election candidate. According to several of Poe's biographers, so-called 'cooping gangs' or 'election gangs' working for a political candidate would hold random victims in a room and ply them with alcohol or give them face beatings to get them to comply. Often their
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Form of electoral fraud
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooping
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2024-03-22T04:17:46Z
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