History Main / VoteEarlyVoteOften

* In the AlternateHistory novel ''Resurrection Day'', the Cuban Missile Crisis leads to nuclear war and a devastated United States, and the late President Kennedy is blamed for it all. Someone mentions the story about the dead voting for Kennedy and wonders if they wanted some company.

** In the aftermath of the 2020 election, Trump and several of his allies have claimed that UsefulNotes/JoeBiden's victory was only due to rampant voter fraud. These claims have been widely deboonked, though that has not stopped Trump from attempting to get himself declared the winner anyway in what critics have on occasion called a coup attempt.

** In the aftermath of the 2020 election, Trump and several of his allies have claimed that UsefulNotes/JoeBiden's victory was only due to rampant voter fraud. These claims have been widely debunked, though that has not stopped Trump from attempting to get himself declared the winner anyway in what critics have on occasion called a coup attempt.

** Meanwhile, Democrats typically blame their losses on the inverse of this, voter suppression, with equally scant evidence. Many (such as Stacey Abrams in the hotly contested 2018 election for governor of Georgia) have claimed that they didn't get as many votes as they should have because voters were intimidated, dropped from rolls, or otherwise prevented from voting, for reasons that always seem to boil down to racism.

* Taken UpToEleven with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_D._B._King Charles D. B. King]] of [[UsefulNotes/{{Liberia}} Liberia]], who [[BlatantLies claimed to have received 243,000 votes....at a time when Liberia had only 15,000 registered voters]]. He got the "most fraudulent election" award in the 1982 ''Guinness World Book of Records'' for that.

** Trump also caused a bit of a stir two months before the 2020 presidential election when he, an ardent detractor of mail-in voting, urged mail-in voters to also cast their ballot at their election office to make sure their vote was properly counted[[note]]his reasoning being that if your postal vote was valid, your in-person vote would automatically fail, and if the latter was counted because your mail-in hadn't yet arrived, it would be ignored instead. Despite his attacks, he came off as a {{hypocrite}} when he voted via mail[[/note]]. Though legally sound, detractors criticized Trump's approach as a veiled attempt to get Republican voters to vote twice.

* This isn't uncommon on Rotten Tomatoes. A good example is the film ''Film/{{Gotti}}'', which has a 0% critic score and a 50% audience score. Straightforward case of CriticalDissonance, right? Except ''Gotti'' was a BoxOfficeBomb that made around four million, yet it has more user ratings than ''Film/Halloween2018'' as of this writing - a movie that made over ''fifty times as much''. Between being heavily pushed by the ailing company [=MoviePass=] and starring ChurchOfHappyology golden boy Creator/JohnTravolta, it's really not hard to guess what's going on there.

* In season one of ''Series/{{Boss|2000}}'' Tom Kane's chosen candidate for governor is projected to lose the primary but Kane is not going to let that happen. He starts calling in favours and making deals with local ward bosses. A massive sabotage and misinformation campaign ensues where the other candidate's campaign signs are stolen and his supporters are directed to non-existing voting locations. There probably is no actual ballot box stuffing but the effect is similar.

* In ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls', after the incredibly-elderly Mayor Befufflefumpter died, it was a race between Grunkle Stan and Bud Gleeful (who of course was being manipulated by his son [[DiscOneFinalBoss Gideon]], who was imprisoned at the time). But thanks to Stan's long rapsheet, Gideon's plan being foiled by Stan, Dipper and Mabel, and ''neither'' candidate having filed the proper paperwork, [[RecurringExtra Tyler Cutebiker]] [[DarkHorseVictory ends up becoming mayor]].

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' provides the Page Image, where after the incredibly-elderly Mayor Befufflefumpter died, it was a race between Grunkle Stan and Bud Gleeful (who of course was being manipulated by his son [[DiscOneFinalBoss Gideon]], who was imprisoned at the time). But thanks to Stan's long rapsheet, Gideon's plan being foiled by Stan, Dipper and Mabel, and ''neither'' candidate having filed the proper paperwork, [[RecurringExtra Tyler Cutebiker]] [[DarkHorseVictory ends up becoming mayor]].

** [[UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers The Guardian]] obtained CCTV footage of poll-workers [[https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2018/mar/19/russian-election-footage-appears-to-show-vote-rigging-video allegedly stuffing the ballot boxes]] in the same manner as the page image.

** Trump also caused a bit of a stir two months before the 2020 presidential election when he, an ardent detractor of mail-in voting, urged mail-in voters to also cast their ballot at their election office to make sure their vote was properly counted[[note]]his reasoning being that if your mail-in vote was valid, your in-person vote would automatically fail, and if the latter was counted because your mail-in hadn't yet arrived, it would be ignored instead. Despite his attacks, he came off as a {{hypocrite}} when he voted via mail[[/note]]. Though legally sound, detractors criticized Trump's approach as a veiled attempt to get Republican voters to vote twice.
** In the aftermath of the 2020 election, Trump and several of his allies have claimed that the victory of UsefulNotes/JoeBiden was only due to widespread voter fraud. These claims have been widely disputed and are generally considered to not be credible, though that has not stopped Trump from attempting to get himself declared the winner anyway in what critics have on occassion called a coup attempt.

* Suspected vote tampering becomes motive for revenge in NonSerialMovie "Wrath of the Spider Queen" for ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy''.

'''Frasier:''' I beg your p Peterson.\\

* ''Series/AllInTheFamily'' had a contest for a beautiful baby, and Archie was quite willing to ensure victory. At the end of the episode Baby Joey and Baby Linda were both disqualified for too many phoney votes. The group running the contest got a little suspicious, found that a judge signed a vote form, even though he was in jail three weeks ago.

'''Frasier:''' I beg your pardon. I wrote Norm Peterson.\\

* Election rigging was the standard procedure in UsefulNotes/{{Spain}} during Alfonso XII's reign (1874-1898), as the two main parties, Cánovas del Castillo's Conservatives and Sagasta's Liberals, put in place a "peaceful turn" agreement which saw them alternate power each term. The incoming government would be hand-picked by the king and would then enlist the local bosses (''caciques'') to instruct the locals how to vote to obtain the planned result. And just in case, ballots under the names of nonexistent or dead people would also be thrown in for good measure.

* Taken UpToEleven with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_D._B._King Charles D. B. King]] of [[UsefulNotes/{{Liberia}} Liberia]], who [[BlatantLies claimed to have received 234,000 votes....at a time when Liberia had only 15,000 registered voters]]. He got the "most fraudulent election" award in the 1982 ''Guinness World Book of Records'' for that.

** Mr. Trump also caused a bit of a stir two months before the 2020 presidential election when he, an ardent detractor of mail-in voting, urged mail-in voters to also cast their ballot at their election office to make sure their vote was properly counted[[note]]his reasoning being that if your mail-in vote was valid, your in-person vote would automatically fail, and if the latter was counted because your mail-in hadn't yet arrived, it would be ignored instead[[/note]]. Though legally sound, Mr. Trump's political opponents and many law experts critized this approach as a veiled attempt to get Republican voters to vote twice.

* Very common in the {{UsefulNotes/Philippines}}, in part because U.S. colonial attempts to impose American/Western-style democratic norms onto substantially different Filipino culture and power dynamics has resulted in political systems, including elections, being run in ways often antithetical to "liberal democratic" (read: American or otherwise Western) tastes. (Then again, the American politicians who mentored Filipino oligarchs in the early 20th century were often Tammany Hall alumni themselves, something Filipino elites were presumably much more familiar and comfortable with.)

* The Election Day [[TheCaper heist]] in ''VideoGame/{{Payday2}}'' is about sneaking ion a warehouse to hack voting machine to swing the votes the way a CorruptPolitician wants you to. [[StartsStealthilyEndsLoudly Plan B]] if you get spotted has you instead rig the vote in favor of the other candidate, which given the obvious battle that happens during Plan B, would have the CorruptPolitician you are helping secure a DisqualificationInducedVictory..

* Dan Halen of ''WesternAnimation/{{Squidbillies}} reveals this to be another reason he cloned the town sheriff. Initially, presented as a means to control the county's law enforcement with ExpendableClones, he later uses them to try win an ballot initiative to legalize alcohol.

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' provides the TropeImage, where after the incredibly-elderly Mayor Befufflefumpter died, it was a race between Grunkle Stan and Bud Gleeful (who of course was being manipulated by his son [[DiscOneFinalBoss Gideon]], who was imprisoned at the time). But thanks to Stan's long rapsheet, Gideon's plan being foiled by Stan, Dipper and Mabel, and ''neither'' candidate having filed the proper paperwork, [[RecurringExtra Tyler Cutebiker]] [[DarkHorseVictory ends up becoming mayor]].

** Mr. Trump also caused a bit of a stir two months before the 2020 presidential election when he, an ardent detractor of mail-in voting, urged mail-in voters to also cast their ballot at their election office to make sure their vote was properly counted[[note]]his reasoning being that if your mail-in vote was valid, your in-person vote would automatically fail, and if the latter was counted because your mail-in hadn't yet arrived, it would be ignored instead[.