personation

Example Sentences

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No cases of personation - where someone pretends to be another person, in order to vote - were reported during this year's elections.

From BBC • Jun. 22, 2023

The former Marine, Brandon Magnan, 37, of Naples, Florida, was charged on Jan. 6 with false personation of an officer or employee of the United States, according to a criminal complaint by the Secret Service.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 11, 2020

But if you vote as anyone else - living, dead or fictitious - you would be committing an offence called personation, the Electoral Commission said.

From BBC • Nov. 8, 2019

In cases of suspected personation the poll clerk reports the matter to the returning officer, who tells the police.

From BBC • Nov. 8, 2019

An eye-witness describes her light form, rising scarcely above the middle size, as seeming in its faultless symmetry to float rather than to move—the very personation of Grace.

From Lives of Celebrated Women by Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold)