Cooping was a practice by which unwilling participants were forced to vote, often several times over,9L0 402 for a particular candidate in an election.
In 1852, historian J. T. Scharf wrote in Chronicles of Baltimore:
"The Reform Association was organized to secure quiet and fairness at the polls, which at this time were scenes of the most disgraceful violence and disorder. In addition to the ordinary acts of intimidation, honest gentlemen as well as unfortunate wretches 9L0 509 were frequently seized and 'cooped' in vile dens, drugged, stupefied with whiskey, and then carried round and 'voted' in ward after ward, the police offering no opposition, and the judges receiving the votes."
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