For some historical perspectives on election fraud, and how "difficult" it is to pull off and get away with, Mises had an article on LBJ's Election Theft.
Don’t Forget LBJ’s Election Theft
So, how was this election fraud carried out? Well, changing a 7 into a 9. Literally.
"But also on Friday, Jim Wells County, which was governed as a personal fiefdom by a powerful South Texas rancher named George Parr, filed “amended” returns for what has become famous as “Box 13” that gave Johnson another 200 votes. When all was said and done, Johnson had “won” the election by 87 votes.
It was later discovered that one of Parr’s men had changed the total tally for Johnson from 765 to 965 by simply curling the 7 into a 9.
Where did the extra 200 votes come from? The last 202 names on on the election roll in Box 13 were in a different color ink from the rest of the names, the names were in alphabetical order, and they were all in the same handwriting. When Caro was researching his book, he secured a statement from Luis Salas, an election judge in Jim Wells County, who acknowledged the fraud and confessing his role in it."
Wow, seems pretty blatant, right? How ever would a democrat get away with such blatant tomfoolery? Why, by asking democrats if democrats did anything wrong!
"As the
Washington Post reported, to investigate what obviously appeared quite suspicious Stevenson employed the assistance of Frank Hamer, the Texas Ranger who had trapped and killed Bonnie and Clyde. It was to no avail. Johnson got a friendly state judge to issue an injunction preserving the status quo, after which the Democratic executive committee, by one vote, declared Johnson to be the winner.
Stevenson took the matter to federal court but the Supreme Court punted, declaring that it had no right to interfere with a state election."
Now, given this, I think we can clearly determine two clear facts:
1) Election fraud is really hard to do.
2) Democrats are and have always been men of integrity and honor.