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- Cooping - Wikipedia
Cooping was a form of electoral fraud in the United States, cited speculatively in relation to the death of Edgar Allan Poe in October 1849, [1][2][3] by which gangs kidnapped citizens off the street and forced them to vote, often repeatedly, for an election candidate
- Election Fraud in the 1800s Involved Kidnapping and Forced Drinking
Before sophisticated computer models were used to get out the vote, violent gangs would kidnap voters, feed them alcohol or drugs and force them to vote multiple times dressed in various disguises
- What Was Cooping? (with picture) - Historical Index
This practice of forcing innocent bystanders to commit voter fraud was known as cooping Despite its violent nature, cooping was largely tolerated by local police officers and probate judges primarily because they were on the payroll of the political candidate in question
- Cooping: Forced Voting in the 19th Century - geriwalton. com
What brought a halt to cooping was that corruption in politics began to be more closely scrutinized by authorities and citizens People also wanted to end voter fraud and that resulted in police sometimes overseeing caucuses to ensure that a person did not vote more than once
- Cooping - Wikiwand
Cooping was a form of electoral fraud in the United States, cited speculatively in relation to the death of Edgar Allan Poe in October 1849, by which gangs kidnapped citizens off the street and forced them to vote, often repeatedly, for an election candidate
- cooping - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Noun cooping (uncountable) The practice of forcing unwilling participants to vote, often several times over, for a particular candidate in an election
- Cooping - Academic Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Cooping was a practice by which unwilling participants were forced to vote, often several times over, for a particular candidate in an election
- The man that was used up. | Lapham’s Quarterly
In his Maryland: A Bicentennial History, Carl Bode describes cooping as “the shutting up of men, usually derelicts, in rooms or coops on Election Day and then dragging them from polling place to polling place to cast their votes
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