Family voting
Form of electoral fraud
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Family voting is a form of electoral fraud, where family members enter a voting booth together and collude, discuss, or direct voting intentions.[1] Family voting violates the individual voter sovereignty[2] and secret ballot principles of free and fair elections, by enabling undue influence and coercion during the voting process.[2] It can also occur during postal voting.[2]
Research in Turkey in 2019 suggested that family voting had been under-reported there.[3] In 2023, the United Kingdom passed the Ballot Secrecy Act to make it an offence for a person to "accompany an elector into a polling booth; or position near an elector inside a polling station with the intention of influencing how they cast their vote".[4][5]
See also
- Demeny voting – Type of proxy voting on behalf of children