Actually Stalin did a version of ‘ballot stuffing’ at the 29th[?] Party Congress. The rumor that never went away is that Kirov got more votes than Uncle Joe. So a little conference was held in the back room and lo and behold, Stalin won. Kirov wound up dead shortly after, and Stalin used it as an excuse to launch the Great Terror. Most of the delegates to that Congress then also wound up dead.
>>>Actually Stalin did a version of ‘ballot stuffing’ at the 29th[?] Party Congress. The rumor that never went away is that Kirov got more votes than Uncle Joe. So a little conference was held in the back room and lo and behold, Stalin won. Kirov wound up dead shortly after, and Stalin used it as an excuse to launch the Great Terror. Most of the delegates to that Congress then also wound up dead.<<<
Thanks for the history lesson. It reminds me of all those elections in the old Soviet Union where the single communist candidate on the ballot always got 100 percent of the vote. Which, sadly, is the kind of wet dream that our Democrats lust after.