You know, I'm getting really tired of this prvaricating by Democrats, liberals, and primitives, about how Republicans "steal" elections. It's time the truth illuminated the world.
The Democrat party since Aaron Burr has a long and sordid and tawdry history of vote-manipulation, starting with rounding up non-English-speaking immigrants in the large cities of the eastern states, and "voting" them.
This has been going on for a very long time, and it's long past time the lie stopped.
The Republican party since 1856 has essentially dominated small areas with small populations, with but two exceptions--Pennsylvania and Rhode Island circa 1870-1930, and the cities of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh during the same era. All of these Republican party machines were destroyed, completely and utterly destroyed, by 1930. They exist no more, and no other state or major city has since seen the evoluton of a Republican party machine.
In the meantime, Democrat party machines have flourished and prospered, to an extent that would make the late Richard Daley, the late Ed Crump, the late Moon Landrieu, the late Frank Hague, the late James Curley, the late Robert Wagner, the late Tom Prendergast, &c., &c., &c., green with envy.
More "votes" can be created out of thin air by one ward boss in Cleveland, Ohio, than all the votes honestly cast in most states of the Great Plains.
It's time to respond to this lie; Republicans don't cheat, because Republicans don't have the tools to cheat--control of big cities and industrial states. One can't blame an armless man for building a house.