Large-scale electoral shenanigans are a thing of the past, experts say. In a new age, they've gone the way of party bosses. Dead people are sometimes parties to it.
Voter fraud is a hallowed tradition in American electoral politics.
Wholesale voter fraud is almost entirely a thing of the past. And the now almost legendary instances would be virtually impossible today. But there are also, in every election cycle, glitches of all kinds, from the minor to major unanticipated problems and people working under great pressure and with little sleep to solve them. The heavy hand of fraud has lightened since the 19th century, when party bosses virtually decreed election outcomes. When the two parties faced a tight presidential vote in 1888, there was a binge of vote-buying and voter fraud that rivaled any in U.S. history.