Ollie seems to be a nice enough guy, maybe a little excitable, but apparantly decent.
One day he got to talking about how nasty the "Project 100,000" guys were ~ these were the mentally - "below norm" guys allowed to be drafted.
Some were bad, but there was this one fellow I met in my TOE outfit, 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry (Audie Murphy's old unit). He wanted to go to Nam bad, but no one would cut orders to do that. They looked at the guy and said "Hey, he's just Project 100,000 trash. I will not be responsible for sending him to his certain death."
So, this "below norm" guy engineered his own complaint to his two senators and his one representative, and to the Secretary of Defense. Since he couldn't read or write very well, he had to talk others into writing his letters and reading the responses, but he got it done.
He went from being assigned to the most menial of duties to a position of some respectability as a line Infantryman in Nam.
Last any of us saw of him he was an E-6, and on the cover of Life magazine, out doing his stuff, leading people, and showing everybody that he actually was a very capable guy.
So, when Ollie mouthed off about those guys, I reflected back on the one I'd met, and ol'Ollie got written off my personal list.
Ollie did that to a lot of folks, and it wasn't political at all ~ just real deep and personal.
After you do that enough, you can't win elections in Virginia.
My point is, where the local party machinery would not object to fraud (and North was hated by the Arlington and Alexandria Republican leaders), paperless voting machines facilitate disenfranchisement.