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[14] He found cases of Republican voter fraud in southern Illinois but said that the totals "did not match the Chicago fraud he found." [14] An academic study in 1985 [16] later analyzed the ballots of two disputed precincts in Chicago which were subject to a recount. It found that while there was a pattern of miscounting votes to the advantage ...
Even if Nixon had carried Illinois, the state would not have given him a victory, for Kennedy would still have won 276 electoral votes, to Nixon's 246. [107] A special prosecutor assigned to the case brought charges against 650 people but charges were later dropped. [90] Three Chicago election workers were convicted of voter fraud in 1962, and ...
Republican candidate Richard Nixon won the state of Illinois by a narrow margin of 2.93%. [14] The winning of Illinois was the moment that sealed a close and turbulent election for Nixon, [15] [16] who in the last counting did much better in massively populated Cook County than Goldwater or Nixon himself in 1960. [15]
Voter fraud occurred on an election-determining scale at least once — in 1936 when Carl Smith ran for reelection as Tarrant County sheriff. He had already served six terms, starting in 1920 as a ...
Election Law Journal 10.2 (2011): 129–164. Foley, Edward B. "Preparing for a Disputed Presidential Election: An Exercise in Election Risk Assessment and Management." Loyola University Chicago Law Journal 51 (2019): 309+. online; Gellman, Irwin F. Campaign of the Century: Kennedy, Nixon, and the Election of 1960 (Yale UP, 2022) excerpt.
Former President Donald Trump has claimed Pennsylvania is "cheating big" in the election, though there is no evidence of fraud. Truth Be Told: No sign of widespread voter fraud in Pennsylvania ...
Unlike Trump’s campaign in 2020, however, the Harris campaign and top Democratic Party officials have not endorsed allegations of cheating or voter fraud. On election day, fraud rumours also ...
Nixon later claimed in his biography, Six Crises, that voter fraud had occurred in Illinois and Texas. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Historian Edmund Kallina, however, writes that the discrepancies in the Chicago vote count were not large enough to give the state to Nixon if they had not occurred.