Labour became New Labour under the influence of Bill Clinton's new Democrats, and the Conservatives have long tried to steal vote-winning Republican clothes.
He ridiculed the suggestion that the party could be preparing to steal votes.
His late father, Mayor Richard J. Daley of Chicago, had been accused of helping steal votes for John F. Kennedy 40 years ago.
There was a very real possibility, the professors warned, that the system could be used to steal votes.
At St . Georges School in the center of town, someone shouted that an election worker was trying to steal votes for Mr. Kabila.
And he is maintaining the determinedly nationalist tone he adopted on the campaign trail, a tactic designed to steal votes from the Nationalist Action Party (MHP).
Mr Monti could steal votes from the PdL, which is in danger of breaking apart despite Mr Berlusconi's return and from the moderate wing of the PD.
Indeed, she has pulled the CDU leftward, partly out of conviction but also to create more coalition options and steal votes from the Social Democrats.
On Wednesday, Willibrod Slaa, the former Roman Catholic priest running for president, accused Tanzania's secret police of helping steal votes for the president and called for a recount.
The threat seemed to add fuel to the fire, as many opposition supporters saw it as a thinly-veiled government plot to steal votes.
And there is a simpler case available: Not content to steal elections with dishonest arguments, the other side is literally tampering with the democratic machinery to steal votes.
