Daley held back the Chicago vote until late the next morning.
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Even if Illinois election results were fraudulent, it did not give the presidency to Kennedy. Take Illinois electoral votes from Kennedy and give them to Nixon and Kennedy still wins the presidency.
“Even if Illinois election results were fraudulent, it did not give the presidency to Kennedy. Take Illinois electoral votes from Kennedy and give them to Nixon and Kennedy still wins the presidency.”
Yes, you are correct, but my point was that fraud does occur, without question. There were also questions about fraud in Texas that year - being LBJ territory. If Nixon had won Texas and Illinois he would have made 270 and won the Presidency. The popular vote difference that election was 119,450 for the entire US. No one, even you and I, knows exactly what happened that year, but IMHO to dismiss the possibility of voting irregularities determining major elections would be a mistake.