I was a young reporter for the late Philadelphia Evening Bulletin in 1960. The Bulletin was America's largest evening newspaper and the third largest overall. I had left the Philadelphia Daily News to take the Bulletin job and my first assignment was to investigate vote fraud. I uncovered enough to have a whole team assigned. We found a man doing life for murder voting in every election, The chief magistrate lived in a small row house with his mother. There were 24 persons with different names registered from that address. We had 40 registered voters living in a banana warehouse by the Delaware. There were the usual folks voting from paved-over parking lots and cemeteries. We were aware of the trick of ringing up votes on the machines before the polls opened. There was for a very short period-after we published our stories-- fairly honest elections in Philly. Things quickly regressed. We won the National Headliners Award for the series by the way and I feel the honor was well deserved.
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Interesting story. Do you think the local GOP really wants to end this fraud, or do some look the other way, for certain reasons(I've heard Specter and Rendell have had some sort of 'gentleman's agreement')?