Original sentence: Deliberate under-allocation of voting machines or booths to certain precincts.Failure to deliver absentee ballots in a timely manner
Edited sentence: Deliberate under-allocation of voting machines or booths to certain precincts; it should be noted that the counties involved were almost always run by officials of the complaining party, casting doubt on the claim's veracity.Failure to deliver absentee ballots in a timely manner, especially to military personnel stationed overseas.For instance, prior to the 2004 elections in the United States, one party issued instructions to local party officials to allege voting suppresion even if no evidence was available, simply to get news coverage.It is also fairly common to allege voting suppression with very little evidence to attract attention to one political party or cause or cast aspersions on another.Premature announcement of results, whether real or fabricated, can also be a tactic to convince late voters not to vote