When LBJ lost the Texas Senate race to Coke Stevens by something like 50 votes, he stuffed the ballot box in one of the South Texas border counties with just enough votes to win.
Frank Hamer, the Texas Ranger who caught Bonnie and Clyde caught him red handed. LBJ’s crooks were so bold that they listed the fake votes alphabetically.
Harry Truman sent Abe Fortas down to help Johnson and some Federal court ruled for the jackass Johnson.
That is Democrat machine politics and it still is.