What is Electoral Malpractice?
Electoral malpractice is any wrongdoing affecting the electoral procedure, electorateall the people in a country or area who are entitled to vote in an election. More, and electoral material which influences the election outcomes so as to choose personal benefit over the public interest.
Electoral malpractice entails those acts that are illegal, wrong, and unjustly carried out before, during, and after elections by some politicians, security agents, electoral commission staff, political parties, party supporters etc. in order to win an election.
Forms of Electoral Malpractice:
Electoral malpractice can also be termed electoral fraud which is illegal interference with the process of an election with the aim of increasing the number of votes of the preferred candidate and reducing the number of votes of the rival candidate.
Electoral malpractice can take any of the following forms:
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