Of course political machines have been voting dead peopleforever. I think Aaron Burr resorted to this in 1800 after he set up Tammany Hall. But the main thing is to organize down to local and get people to the polls. Next thing is to get observers into the polling places and make sure that the cheating is kept to a minimum. All this takes boots on the ground. Inevitably some precincts are as hard to police as a Taliban village.
Terrific analogy and so true.