personation

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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

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

From BBC • Nov. 8, 2019

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

The Shearmen or Clothworkers had a personation of bishop Blasius, with a black mitre of wool and doubtless also the wool-comb with which he had been tortured at his martyrdom.

From The Influence and Development of English Gilds As Illustrated by the History of the Craft Gilds of Shrewsbury by Hibbert, Francis Aiden