Heck! I’m from Chicago.
By the time I was in the 1st grade in the 60’s, I knew dead people voted!
Even in NH, Manchester and Nashua were the biggest cities and had voting machines, but the Dem machines there would wait to see what numbers were needed statewide before reporting them in.
Same thing that goes on now in CT, with Bridgeport, New Haven and Hartford reliably delivering late for the Dems.