I recall (but I’m too lazy to find a link) a case in U.S. history where a local election in a rural area resulted in, and was successfully resolved by, an armed grassroots uprising and prolonged firefight between the two sides, wherein the ggod guys ultimately prevailed against the entrenched corruption of the scumbags...people were actually killed and maimed, etc...the feds were too late to the shooting match to intervene, and of course the actions of the winners were second-guessed and criticized and all, but after all the good guys did win and the problem was in fact settled.
Probably McMinn (or maybe Meigs) Co Tenn, c. 1946. There is an account in John Gunther’s book “inside USA” I think he says that newly returned veterans took on the old machine - after the voting, the old guys took the ballot boxes into the jail to “count” them in privacy, and the vets simply stormed the jail!
At least that’s what I remember — with that much, you may be able to google it up.