"paper candidate" meaning in English

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        {
          "ref": "1928, James M. Beck Election Case, First District of Pennsylvania: Hearings before the Committee on Elections No. 2, House of Representatives, Seventieth Congress, First Session: By Authority of House Resolution No. 9, part II (Law Arguments), Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 126:",
          "text": "Mr. Kent. I never knew of any actual Democratic opponent to a Republican candidate for Congress in Philadelphia for a number of years, but there may have been some \"paper candidate\" set up.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, David [Edgeworth] Butler, Dennis Kavanagh, “Constituency Campaigning”, in The British General Election of 1997, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan Press; New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 211:",
          "text": "One Labour candidate in a safe seat believed that his Liberal Democrat opponent was nothing but a ‘paper candidate’, while the Conservatives’ candidate in Scotland reported that his local party had been asked ‘not to canvass but to send people to key seats’; the opposition parties did likewise and were ‘almost nowhere to be seen’.",
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          "ref": "2003 November 7, Don Boudria, House of Commons Debates, Official Report, Ottawa: Edmond Cloutier, Queen's Printer and Controller of Stationery, →ISSN, →OCLC:",
          "text": "The concern is that groups, including advocacy groups, could register as parties simply by fielding a paper candidate and complying with reporting requirements.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, The Parliamentary Monitor, numbers 135–138, London: Parliamentary Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 74:",
          "text": "A contest appears inevitable, even if he is running against a paper candidate such as Lynne Jones, and the chancellor has put in the groundwork necessary to mount a spirited and successful campaign.",
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        "An election candidate with little chance of winning, who is added to the ballot for publicity and to increase the number standing."
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          "winning",
          "win#Verb"
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          "ballot",
          "ballot"
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          "publicity",
          "publicity"
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        [
          "increase",
          "increase#Verb"
        ],
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          "standing",
          "stand#Verb"
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          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "candidate with little chance of winning",
          "word": "apuehdokas"
        }
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        "United States elections, 2014"
      ]
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          "ref": "1928, James M. Beck Election Case, First District of Pennsylvania: Hearings before the Committee on Elections No. 2, House of Representatives, Seventieth Congress, First Session: By Authority of House Resolution No. 9, part II (Law Arguments), Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 126:",
          "text": "Mr. Kent. I never knew of any actual Democratic opponent to a Republican candidate for Congress in Philadelphia for a number of years, but there may have been some \"paper candidate\" set up.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
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          "text": "One Labour candidate in a safe seat believed that his Liberal Democrat opponent was nothing but a ‘paper candidate’, while the Conservatives’ candidate in Scotland reported that his local party had been asked ‘not to canvass but to send people to key seats’; the opposition parties did likewise and were ‘almost nowhere to be seen’.",
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          "text": "The concern is that groups, including advocacy groups, could register as parties simply by fielding a paper candidate and complying with reporting requirements.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
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          "ref": "2006, The Parliamentary Monitor, numbers 135–138, London: Parliamentary Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 74:",
          "text": "A contest appears inevitable, even if he is running against a paper candidate such as Lynne Jones, and the chancellor has put in the groundwork necessary to mount a spirited and successful campaign.",
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          "winning",
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          "ballot",
          "ballot"
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        [
          "publicity",
          "publicity"
        ],
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          "increase",
          "increase#Verb"
        ],
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          "standing",
          "stand#Verb"
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      ],
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        "United States elections, 2014"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "candidate with little chance of winning",
      "word": "apuehdokas"
    }
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  "word": "paper candidate"
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