The placing of partisans where their vote may decide an election.
1842. [Among modern phrases describing political knavery], “colonization” and “pipe-laying” were the most significant. So far as he was informed, the practice of colonizing had its origin, as connected with the elections of the people in our country, in the city of New York.—Mr. Wright of New York in the Senate, May 31: Cong. Globe, p. 471, App.
