Tell ya' what, I'll ping the CWII list *pilgrims* and we'll let *them* decide how it fits in.
I agree that vote fraud could very easily be a *trigger factor* in seeing the house of cards collapse. And though East St. Louis has seen ALL sorts of such problems before, things are certainly no better on the MO side of the river, and the St Looey US Attorney's office is an equally corrupt part of the problem, and for more than the entire last decade.
The article says that it was known which candidates were favored. It was a general election so I would imagine the Dem was cheated against a pubbie.