[Mr. Bird]

John Fund presents an interesting case in the OpinionJournal that Kennedy was in fact elected with less than a plurality of the popular vote. Apparently, Alabama's ballot did not list JFK's name; the option was to vote for a slate of Democrat electors.

Turns out, 5 of those electors cast their votes for another candidate. If a proportionate number of votes were assigned to that candidate, the final vote tally would have shown Nixon with approximately 50,000 more votes nationally than JFK.

Don't tell the Democrats, though.

[presidio9]

If a proportionate number of votes were assigned to that candidate, the final vote tally would have shown Nixon with approximately 50,000 more votes nationally than JFK.

Help help! We've been disenfranchised. How do I get my franchise back?

[mountaineer]

Any W.Va. oldtimer will tell you how Joe Kennedy's operatives rounded up guys at bars, on the streets, wherever they could find them, and paid them $50 to vote for JFK in 1960.

[liberallarry]

In a serious discussion one must accept as fact that all elections will have a certain taint of irregularity and fraud...and that in close elections that fraud will be extremely important in deciding the outcome.

It's naive to believe otherwise.