Unfortunately this has been going on for a long time.
“Landslide” Lyndon John in Duvall County TX did it with the help of George Pharr. (1948)
It is still a crime, but they never seem to be called into question on this.
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Here is an explantion if you want to read it. I did not learn of this from this article:
http://blogs.chron.com/leonhale/2008/07/everything_looks_great_from_up_1.html
That race ended with Stevenson nursing a lead of a little over a hundred votes when a box in Jim Wells County mysteriously showed up six days late containing 202 ballots, 201 of which were for Johnson, giving him an 87 vote victory. Hence the nickname Landslide Lyndon. It was claimed later that most of those 202 ballots were from dead persons.
What was so amazing was not that the dead voted, but that they voted in alphabetical order!
The votes had allegedly been delivered by the Parr political machine in Duval and Jim Wells counties.
Johnson was also assisted by Harry Truman and Abe Fortas. I read Cato’s book about LBJ and it struck me that he might have been the crookedest person in the country.
So true - But Lyndon was a democrat, “selected” not elected by Kennedy (may He ever be praised as a saint! ) who himself stole the 1960 election from Nixon based on illegal Chicago IL ballots.
So, today, lest St Kennedy ever be mentioned despairingly, we never hear of the Kennedy theft. The Kennedy corruption, mismanagement, drugs, sex scandals, or ghostwriting...