"true the vote"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Couldn't it also mean, or have been suggested by, "verify the vote"?

JL
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> Also suggestive of "make (up)right"?
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> Joel
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> At 3/29/2011 03:42 AM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
> >There's an anti-voter fraud group out of Texas (formed by the Tea Party
> >offshoot King Street Patriots) that is holding a national conference this
> >week. It's called "True the Vote," an apparent riff on "Rock the Vote,"
> but
> >with "true" used as a verb to mean "make true" (i.e., nonfraudulent).
> Worth
> >monitoring to see if this verb has legs.
> >
> >http://www.truethevote.org/
> >
> http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/03/tea_party-backed_anti-voter_fraud_effort_touts_non-partisanship_at_first_national_conference.php?ref=fpblg
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> http://www.nationaljournal.com/columns/rules-of-the-game/voting-the-rising-degree-of-difficulty-20110313
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> >--bgz
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