and ever since obama, they’ve had a running joke of vote early and often. My son was taking one of those free online college courses on Python programming a few years ago and one of the instructors made a joke about early and often.
This was going on ling before Obama, although he was hip deep in it.
I can remember back in the 1960 presidential election wen after a meeting with Sam Giancana with both John and Robert Kennedy, and it was noted by many news sources later, that a deal was made with Giancana that if he’d get them votes in Illinois, they’d back off on investigating him. That was the year 50K dead people voted for Kennedy in the Chicago area.
That same year, the presidential election in Hawaii was held on November 8, as part of the United States presidential election. This was the first presidential election in which Hawaii participated; the state had been admitted to the Union just over a year earlier. The islands favored Democrat John F. Kennedy by the narrowest of margins: 115 votes, or 0.06% in polls. But initially it appeared Republican candidate Richard Nixon had won in the state, as he was 141 votes ahead after the first count. A court-ordered recount was still underway when Hawaii’s Republican governor signed the certificate from the GOP electors giving the state’s three electoral votes to Nixon. On the same day, the Democratic electors also issued a certificate awarding the votes to Kennedy. The final recount showed Kennedy had actually prevailed. Question is, where did 256 votes come from. Nixon accepted it and ordered congress to certify the second count. A little class there considering he took every island but Oahu.
There have been other instances of questionable voting tactics well into history. Wish they’d stop. But being required to show a national ID card has been dropped and using finger prints like they do in the military is also off the plate.
rwood