nuisance candidate

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English

Noun

nuisance candidate (plural nuisance candidates)

  1. (US, Philippines, politics, law) A candidate for election meant to present the election process as a mockery or disrepute or to cause confusion among voters (e.g. via similarity of names of candidates)

Further reading

  • nuisance candidate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • 1985 December 3, “Batas Pambansa blg. 881, Omnibus Code of the Philippines”, in Supreme Court E-Library, section 69: