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

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

Another idea, more excusable, but equally preposterous, is, that grammatical gender has been the cause of the male and female personation of deities, when really it has been the result.

From Moon Lore by Harley, Timothy