Tammany count, n. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tammany count n.

[New York, City’s notorously corrupt Tammany Hall, paradigm of the country's political ‘machines’]

(US) a falsified count of votes.

1932

D.W. Lovelace King Kong [novelization] 140: ‘That twelve isn’t any Tammany count, either,’ he said. ‘It’s the real thing’.