>>>You having a go at Anglo here? Cos surely "standing for office" is a US term too?
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>>Nope. Here, you "run for office."
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>>However, I suspect the origin goes back to everyone meeting to vote, and the candidates literally standing.
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>>Tamar
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>I'd imagine you'd get morte votes by standing and orating than running round the room breathlessly wheezing the lies! :-)
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>>morte votes<<

We call that voter fraud. :-)

Tamar