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I was reading up on the box 13 scandal when lbj was elected to the senate in 1948 in highly suspicious circumstances. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_13_scan

I was reading up on the box 13 scandal when lbj was elected to the senate in 1948 in highly suspicious circumstances. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_13_scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_13_scandal There is strong resistance to electoral reorganization and reform in the US (Gabbard's HR5147 Securing America’s Elections Act bill for example). One has to assume US political operatives insist on this wiggle room, which sometimes makes the US republic's democracy look very sketchy to other nations.

sthnblllII 6y ago
The relevant parts of that wiki article: > 200 additional votes for Johnson were discovered, leading to his victory by 87 votes out of 1 million voters. > Adams noticed that the last 200 ballots were different from the rest. The color of the ink and handwriting used on the tally sheet appeared to be identical, and they were in alphabetical order. > Supreme Court Justice, Hugo Black, ruled that the federal government was not allowed to get involved with a state election. This ruling won Johnson the election