Johnny Rocco : I’ll be back pulling strings to get guys elected mayor before you ever get a ten-buck raise! Yeah, how many of those guys in office owe everything to me? I made them. Yeah, I made them just like a... Like a tailor makes a suit of clothes. I’d take a nobody, see, teach him what to say, get his name in the papers. Then I’d pay for his campaign expenses. Dish out a lot of groceries and coal. Get my boys to bring the voters out. And then count the votes over and over again ‘til they added up right, and he was elected.
I took Russian in college, circa 1965. My professor was from Russia and would sometimes tell us about mother Russia. He told us his brother’s job was to enforce the Stalin doctrine, now renamed Stacy Abrams. His brother primarily changed the votes. Technology/Dominion was not as advanced in those days.