Little help coming up with a word

[Mike Weaver]

That's what we'd call it here in the UK - packing the meeting - I heard 
it happened at one of the recent Momentum meetings in Manchester area, a 
bunch of organised newcomers turned up and voted out all the activists 
who had been doing the work for the last year - a local skirmish in a 
national disagreement.

On 10-Dec-16 3:29 AM, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:
> Packing the meeting.
>
> /Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID/
>
>
> Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks guys, but there's a word, akin to stuffing ballots (but not
> that, obviously) that describes rigging the system by overrunning it
> with your confederates... there IS A WORD GOSHDARNIT!  lol
>
> On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 9:06 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
> > It's called branch stacking here but not sure if it's the same 
> elsewhere...
> >
> > On 10 Dec 2016 1:04 pm, "David Morris" <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Coup?
> >>
> >> On Friday, December 9, 2016, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> What is it called when an insurgency or outsider would-be candidate
> >>> for a political party games the party's leadership selection race by
> >>> storming that party's convention with a bunch of "new" party members?
> >>> I KNOW there's a word for this, damnit...
> >>>
> >>> J.
> >>> -
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