State vote breaking the laws regularly (5)
I believe the answer is:
texas
'state' is the definition.
(I know that Texas is a American state)
'vote breaking the laws regularly' is the wordplay.
'vote' becomes 'x' (how votes are marked).
'breaking' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'regularly' means one should take alternating letters (regularly take one letter, leave next etc.).
'the'+'laws'='thelaws'
The alternate letters of 'thelaws' are 'teas'.
'x' placed inside 'teas' is 'TEXAS'.
(Other definitions for texas that I've seen before include "Second-largest US state by area" , "Large US state" , "State on the Gulf of Mexico" , "11's favourite baseball team" , "State of USA" .)