[central_va]

In a number of States Democrat vote fraud was rampant. Voters and officials were murdered, ballot boxes stolen, and anti-secession votes removed from the ballot counts to secure a fraudulent vote for secession.

Post reference.

[WhiskeyX]

That would require the writing of one or more books, which is far beyond the scope of a comment in a blog thread. Try reading some of the biographies about Sam Houston which do not fawn oveer the Confederacy, the histories which aren’t pro-Confederate which describe the secession conventions of states like Kentucky for one of several possible examples.

Understand, there is so much romance about the Confederacy, it can be somewhat difficult to locate online historical references to the secessionist conventions, but the books at the research libraries from the period describe some of the incidents. Don’t let the historical reevisionism to deceive you.

[WhiskeyX]

A quick search brought up the following example.

On the 26th the Louisiana convention passed an Ordinance of Secession by 103 yeas to 17 nays. It was charged that there had been fraud in the election of delegates to the convention, and the claim was made that the Union men were in a majority throughout the State. Accordingly it was proposed to submit the ordinance to the vote of the people. This proposition was voted down by 84 yeas to 45 nays.

In Texas, a State convention, called by the legislature, which, as we have seen, had met in unconstitutional assembly, passed an Ordinance of Secession on February 1, by a vote of 166 yeas to 7 nays. This was submitted to a popular vote and was ratified by a large majority.
Arkansas, North Carolina, Virginia, and Missouri held conventions in which the Union men were in a majority, and the secession of these States was thus postponed. The later secession of Missouri was the work of persons unauthorized by the Confederacy, and, though recognized by the Confederacy, was not legally valid even according to the theory of secession.
The Tennessee and Kentucky legislatures, being strongly Unionist, refused to call conventions.
Gov. Thomas H. Hicks, of Maryland, refused to convene the legislature of his State on the subject.
The legislature of Delaware, when urged by a comissioner from Mississippi to pass an Ordinance of Secession, gave the proposition an “unqualified disapproval.”

Great Debates in American History, Volume Five, pages 278-279
Current Literature Publishing Company, New York, 1913
http://www.adena.com/adena/usa/cw/al.htm