People with poor eyesight, people who cannot read, or even people with arthritis which prevents them from pulling the levers on the voting machines. The number of these people rises during election time. A candidate will have his people working as election officers and these workers will have a large amount of cash with them. Another way of helping the cause is to run an election taxi service. Workers will pick up people at their homes, drive them to the polling places, and offer them cash to vote the right way, and drive them back home.
Mountain people are people that keep their word.
Absentee voting is another powerful way of gathering votes. The person places their signature on the ballot and sells it to the highest bidder. The person then goes home with the cash and stays out of sight on Election Day. Some candidates resort to blackmail to get votes. They will study the tax records for the county, making note of who is behind in their property taxes.