Comment by 082349872349872

When Carter was just starting out in politics, the ballot stuffers were so naive (or so confident?) that all the dead people who voted against him did so in alphabetical order.

EDIT: the actual story of 1962 is even worse than I had remembered: https://www.atlantamagazine.com/news-culture-articles/the-fi...

> I decided to run for office in 1962, after the Supreme Court ruled in Baker v. Carr that all votes had to be weighted as equally as possible. This resulted in the termination of Georgia’s “county unit” system, where some rural votes equaled 100 votes in urban areas.

> Pennington learned that 117 voters had allegedly lined up in exact alphabetical order to cast their ballots. Many were dead, in prison, or living in distant places.

and, when Carter went to the legislature after having been elected:

> I remember that one floor amendment was proposed by a senator from Enigma ... that would "prohibit any citizen from casting a ballot in a primary or general election who has been dead more than three years."