Why were southerners trying to vote in New York?
They had marched north as an army of concerned citizens. Along the way they learned to speak with a Bronx accent and they decided, as long as they were there and they fit right in, what the heck, they would just go ahead and change their place of official residence to the Bronx, register, and perform their civic duty of voting. They were conscientious and went to Penn Station (across from Madison Square Garden where the Knicks were playing) and caught the 8th Avenue line downtown and went to 26 Federal Plaza and reported to INS and did all their paperwork right and proper.
It is surprising how they could pass for New Yorkers, considering the accent. One would have thought it would have been much easier to go to Chicago where the accent is much more similar, and they could have just claimed residence at any local cemetary and voted as dead people.
New Yorkers were trying to vote in New York. They were Democrats. The Democrats in New York greatly outnumbered the Republicans. The Democrat vote was suppressed.
Only a #3fool would think there was an army of Southerners drawling their way around NYC trying to vote.