It doesn't really take a political genius to gather up the 'unused' ballots littering the countryside and put them in the box, where nobody can investigate to see if it's actually a legal ballot.
It doesn't really take a political genius to gather up the 'unused' ballots littering the countryside and put them in the box, where nobody can investigate to see if it's actually a legal ballot.
Well, it does though. Not a genius, per se, but a lot of hands. If you drop off 10,000 ballots to a voting district with 10,000 people in it, some one is going to notice. So you have to drop off a few hundred at many different places, requiring many different people be involved. However, dropping off a few boxes with 10k ballots to a central counting area in say Philly, that's easy, and requires fewer people and less planning. The return on effort is much higher, and the chances of getting caught much lower, in the latter case, especially because there are fewer overseeing officials to bribe.
It doesn't really take a political genius to gather up the 'unused' ballots littering the countryside and put them in the box, where nobody can investigate to see if it's actually a legal ballot.
Well, it does though. Not a genius, per se, but a lot of hands. If you drop off 10,000 ballots to a voting district with 10,000 people in it, some one is going to notice. So you have to drop off a few hundred at many different places, requiring many different people be involved. However, dropping off a few boxes with 10k ballots to a central counting area in say Philly, that's easy, and requires fewer people and less planning. The return on effort is much higher, and the chances of getting caught much lower, in the latter case, especially because there are fewer overseeing officials to bribe.