"true the vote"

[Joel S. Berson]

Also suggestive of "make (up)right"?

Joel

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
>http://www.nationaljournal.com/columns/rules-of-the-game/voting-the-rising-degree-of-difficulty-20110313
>
>--bgz
>
>
>Ben Zimmer
>http://benzimmer.com/
>
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