Cheating in elections is as problematic today as it has ever been. It's easy to pull off too but there are dark consequences down the road, even if you think you've gotten away with it.  

In 1948 during a Texas runoff of a Senate primary fight with then Governor Coke Stevenson, early indications were that Lyndon Johnson had lost. Six days later, however, Precinct 13 in the border town of Alice, Texas, showed a very interesting result. Exactly 203 people had voted at the last minute in the order they were listed on the tax rolls and 202 of them had voted for Johnson. While Stevenson protested, Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black upheld the result, and Johnson squeaked by with an 87-vote victory. For this feat, columnist Drew Pearson gave Johnson the sarcastic nickname Landslide Lyndon. It was not until July 30, 1977, that Luis Salas, the election judge in Alice, admitted that he and southern Texas political boss George Parr (who had killed himself in 1975) had rigged the election.