I was just thinking about Dornan yesterday.
I remember it. He proved there were more illegal votes than the margin for victory. The GOP refused to back him, and seated his opponent, Loretta Sanchez, who proved to be as bad as anyone else in congress.
I used to live in this district when this happened in 1996. My father witnessed someone walk up to the ballot box and drop a pile of ballots two feet high into the ballot boxes and the poll workers did NOTHING. I remember going to bed that night, happy, that Dornan has survived by what I remember to be about 2,000 votes. The networks and the local papers wouldn’t call the race because there about 5,000 (I believe) mail in ballots outstanding. I thought to myself Loretta Sanchez would have to get over 70% of the mail in ballots to barely win. Well two weeks later, what do you know she started leading by over a 1,000 votes. That means she got over 80% of the mail in ballots. Santa Ana and Garden Grove were hardly “urban” districts so getting 80% was next to impossible. There investigations and there were 800 plus ballots determined to be fraudulent but not enough to overturn the election. If I remember, Pete McClosky a Democrat, in Indiana, had a similar situation happen to him but unlike the feckless Republicans the Democrats in Congress disqualified the election (which is in their power). Gingrich, Armey and DeLay didn’t extend a finger to help Dornan because they didn’t like him.
And now? Look what we have! We have a state that no Republican has any chance of winning and if we let the left get away with this theft, all elections going forward, will be total shams.