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Boozing, Bribing and Brawling on Election Day
Reid All About it
NOVEMBER 7, 2016
To reduce voter fraud, cities and states started to adopt the secret ballot, beginning with Louisville, Kentucky in 1888. City political machines (organizations), such as Tammany Hall in New York City, didn’t stop at bribery. The campaigns could see who was and who wasn’t voting for them—a situation conducive to bribes and threats.
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