Latinas for Trump founder unseated Florida Democrat after ‘shadow candidate’ with his surname entered the race

WaPost ^ | 11/20/2020 | Teo Armus

[NittanyLion]

How about that - the WP is suddenly interested in questionable voting!

[bIlluminati]

I’m guessing that some of them thought he was the former MLB player. Since Alex Rodriguez the baseball player used steroids to cheat his way to 696 home runs, they probably thought he was the Democrat in the race.

[Buffalo Bob]

Many years ago the Reader's Digest had a major article about the life of Joe Kennedy. The article contained the event where Joe Kennedy "gamed" the system to help his son, JFK, win election to Congress.

Joe Kennedy found a plumber with the same name as the opponent running against his son, JFK, and he paid the plumber to enter the race. The plumber's first and last names were the same as JFK's opponent, but his middle initial was not.

When people voted for JFK's opponent, some were confused by the two people having the same first and last names in the race and enough of them voted for the plumber by mistake. That trick split the vote enough that JFK won his election to Congress.