Let's say you are a campaign manager whose candidate is running for a seat in the General Assembly. Your guy is in a tight race, and he may not win merely by running an honest campaign on the issues. Fortunately, you don't care about honesty. You are completely unscrupulous and will resort to anything to give your man an edge. You've already tried negative campaigning, distortions, and promising the impossible. It's time for dirty tricks. What are your options?
Here are three: (1) You can inflate the number of votes for your guy through vote fraud; (2) you can decrease the number of votes for the other guy by voter intimidation; and (3) if neither works, you can try to change the actual vote count by manipulating voting machines. |