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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

Donovan and Van Dorn present a striking contrast, but they are good friends, and the latter’s personation of the former, on a certain occasion, is a standing joke between them.

From The Award of Justice Or, Told in the Rockies A Pen Picture of the West by Barbour, A. Maynard (Anna Maynard)