Evidence of interference close to election seen in broadcast (4)
I believe the answer is:
snow
'evidence of interference' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I can't see?
'close to election seen in broadcast' is the wordplay.
'close to' suggests the final letters (the close/ending of).
'seen in' is an insertion indicator.
'broadcast' becomes 'sow' (sowing is a kind of broadcasting**).
The last letter of 'election' is 'n'.
'n' placed within 'sow' is 'SNOW'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for snow that I've seen before include "Wintry stuff" , "Frozen precipitation" , "Winter precipitation a cocaine" , "Standard of whiteness" , "Cocaine (slang)" .)