re: #157 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

Even in the 1990’s, I remember hearing my dad quoting the “Chicago motto”, “vote early, vote often,” when referring to local Democratic officials. Republicans and false accusations of voter fraud go back a long way, and as always, they’re rooted in a grain of truth; there is little doubt that 1960’s and 1970’s Chicago, the empire of Richard J. Daley, was a famously corrupt place.

But even that was a lie. It dates back to the election of John F. Kennedy, who was trailing in Cook County counting of the election. Late returns came in causing the election in Cook, and therefore Illinois, to narrowly go to Kennedy.

Republicans then charged that Daley had somehow engaged in fraud (ballot box stuffing or manufacturing ballots).