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Vote buying (also referred to as electoral clientelism and patronage politics) occurs when a political party or candidate distributes money or resources to a voter in an upcoming election with the expectation that the voter votes for the actor handing out monetary rewards. [1]
Vote buying schemes affected at least six local elections between 2009 and 2012, four of which were in Appalachia. [26] Elon Musk has been accused by some election experts of vote buying in the 2024 United States presidential election, with a lottery to give away $1 million daily to a registered voter who signs a petition he created.
Vote fraud can also take place in legislatures. Some of the forms used in national elections can also be used in parliaments, particularly intimidation and vote-buying. Because of the much smaller number of voters, however, election fraud in legislatures is qualitatively different in many ways.
‘People in New York and California online [have] offered money to buy my vote.’ “I’ve lived in Wisconsin all my life. In those 25 years, it’s always been a swing state.
Constable James “Darrell” Jackson and several others are accused of engaging in vote-buying, among other crimes, according to a news release from the Kentucky attorney general’s office. A ...
“There is a history of vote buying in the United States where political organizations and groups paid or rewarded people to vote in elections," said Kim Wyman, a former Washington secretary of ...
But the giveaway is only open to registered voters in seven swing states, drawing warnings from election law experts and civil rights groups that it could be seen as an illegal vote-buying operation.
Patronage, turnout buying, abstention buying, and vote buying are subcategories of clientelism. [1] [14] Patronage refers to an intra-party flow of benefits to members. [1] Turnout buying, coined by Nichter, treats or bribes voters to the polls whereas abstention buying treats or bribes voters to keep them from going to the polls. [15]