It is highly likely that the Pendergasts had engineered the win. As Truman scholar Robert H. Ferrell once wrote: “Certainly Mike and Tom Pendergast used repeaters [repeat voters] . . . They not only took care that absent voters had ballots cast for them, they even voted the dead—a well-known quip on election day was, ‘Now is the time for all good cemeteries to come to the aid of the party.’” Still, Truman emerged victorious and unscathed.
Happens today too
