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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWill Teabaggers Initiate 'Cooping Gangs' For This Election
Cooping was a practice in the United States during the 19th century by which unwilling participants were forced to vote, often several times over, for a particular candidate in an election. Generally these innocent bystanders would be grabbed off the street by so-called 'cooping gangs' or 'election gangs' working on the payroll of a political candidate, and they would be kept in a room, called the "coop", and given alcohol or drugs in order for them to comply. If they refused to cooperate, they would be beaten or even killed. Often their clothing would be changed to allow them to vote multiple times. Sometimes the victims would be forced to wear disguises such as wigs, fake beards or mustaches to prevent them from being recognized by voting officials at polling stations.Edgar Allan Poe is thought by some to have been the victim of cooping before his mysterious death in early October 1849.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooping
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Will Teabaggers Initiate 'Cooping Gangs' For This Election (Original Post)
onehandle
Sep 2012
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Drale
(7,932 posts)1. It would be difficult
People just don't walk around anymore and they'd have to be near their polling place and in cities you could be easily miles from you polling place on any given day.
B2G
(9,766 posts)2. Is this a serious poll?
RagAss
(13,832 posts)3. There's lots of real things to worry about.
Dragging someone off the streets kicking and screaming into the poll station is not one of them.
meow2u3
(24,761 posts)4. I'm more concerned about electronic vote flipping/ballot stuffing machines