kinballot
/ˈkɪnˌbælət/nounVerified NewThe electoral advantage a family surname confers, letting office pass within a household as if inherited.
Voters read the name as a proxy for competence they cannot verify; parties read it as a ready-made brand. Constituencies become, in practice, family property with elections attached.
Etym. — kin + ballot; the two institutions that actually determine succession, joined.
Rel. — eponymboom
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