The restriction (1835) of the time of voting to one day reduced the practice of cooping.
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Cooping
//ˈkuːpɪŋ//
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Cooping, the political version of the shanghai, involved kidnapping citizens […]
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The Tories also engaged in "cooping," intimidating people into voting Tory.
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Since then, there have been many other theories, including death from delirium tremens, mugging, and "cooping" (the electioneering practice of kidnapping and holding people in rooms, plying them with alcohol and/or opium and then forcing them to vote repeatedly at different locations).
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