Personation

Personation

Personation (rather than "im"personation) is a term used in politics for the specific kind of voter fraud where an individual votes in an election, whilst pretending to be a different elector.

Many jurisdictions allow electors to nominate an individual to vote on their behalf, in certain circumstances; this is known as proxy voting. Whilst voting with an invalid proxy form could be considered personation, it is usual for an intent to deceive to be required for such an act to be considered criminal.

Personation also appears as a crime in the Canadian Criminal Code with the meaning simply of impersonation. [cite web|title=Canadian Criminal Code sec. 403|url=http://www.canlii.org/ca/sta/c-46/sec403%2Ehtml]

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  • Personation — Per son*a tion, n. The act of personating, or conterfeiting the person or character of another. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • personation — index caricature, copy Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • personation — noun see personate …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • personation — See personate1. * * * …   Universalium

  • personation — noun The act of voting in an election by impersonating someone else …   Wiktionary

  • personation — Synonyms and related words: acting, aping, buffoonery, business, characterization, dumb show, embodiment, enacting, enactment, gag, ham, hammy acting, hoke, hokum, imitation, impersonation, incarnation, masquerade, mimesis, mimicking, mimicry,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • personation — per·son·a·tion || ‚pÉœrsÉ™ neɪʃn /‚pɜː n. playing of a role; imitation, impersonation, mimicry …   English contemporary dictionary

  • personation — n. Representation, acting, simulation …   New dictionary of synonyms

  • personation — n 1. role, part, portrayal, performance, representation, characterization, interpretation, reading; delineation, sketching, rendering; acting, playacting, playing, performing, taking a role or part, Inf. doing a turn or bit; (all of a role)… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • personation — per·son·a·tion …   English syllables

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