[fluffdaddy]

“I wonder whether it’s harder to manufacture votes in a New England state since they are organized (and, I presume, the votes are counted) by town/city rather than by county.”

I doubt it makes much difference. The corruption has to penetrate down to the nitty-gritty, precinct level to make fraud possible. If a jurisdiction is a one-party kleptocracy elections in that jurisdiction will be rigged. It doesn't much matter how big or small the jurisdiction is.

[Scanian]

Just for grins, I just googled “Massachusetts election fraud” just to see what would come up.

Although there were many, many articles and bloggers worried about it there wasn’t much evidence of it, that I could see.

Either it doesn’t happen much or the culprits are so good at it that they never get caught!