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The term most commonly refers to the practice of registering people to vote in a constituency where they are not in fact residents, in order to boost the votes for a specific candidate. The newly registered voters are usually | The term most commonly refers to the practice of registering people to vote in a constituency where they are not in fact residents, in order to boost the votes for a specific candidate. The newly registered voters are usually | ||
provided with transportation on the day of the election and instructed to cast their votes for a particular candidate; they are then transported back to their home district, where their paperwork is re-registered to reflect their actual place of residence. Literally translated as ‘locust migration’, ''tsartsaani nüüdel'' consists of two Mongolian words, ''tsartsaa'' (царцаа) meaning locust or grasshopper, and ''nüüdel'' (нүүдэл) meaning migration or movement<ref>Starosin, S., Dybo, A. and Mudrak, O. with the assistance of Gruntov, I. and Glumov, V. 2003. Etymological Dictionary of the Altaic Languages. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers</ref>. In its formal meaning, ''tsartsaani nüüdel'' denotes a swarm of locusts that descends onto the land and devours all the good grass before moving on to new pastures. | provided with transportation on the day of the election and instructed to cast their votes for a particular candidate; they are then transported back to their home district, where their paperwork is re-registered to reflect their actual place of residence. | ||
Literally translated as ‘locust migration’, ''tsartsaani nüüdel'' consists of two Mongolian words, ''tsartsaa'' (царцаа) meaning locust or grasshopper, and ''nüüdel'' (нүүдэл) meaning migration or movement<ref>Starosin, S., Dybo, A. and Mudrak, O. with the assistance of Gruntov, I. and Glumov, V. 2003. Etymological Dictionary of the Altaic Languages. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers</ref>. In its formal meaning, ''tsartsaani nüüdel'' denotes a swarm of locusts that descends onto the land and devours all the good grass before moving on to new pastures. | |||
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