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  1. The organization of a local political party
  2. to ensure its own election by influencing the
  3. electorate, and then to retain power through
  4. control of key committees and offices. The
  5. idea of machine politics was epitomized in
  6. the USA in the late 19th century, where it
  7. was used to control individual cities, most
  8. notably Chicago and New York.
  9.