I understand that one reason Richard Nixon
did not complain about the Chicago fraud and
demand a recount was that he understood that
there was fraud on the other side in the rural
counties further south. It would have been a wash.
BTW, I remember an old joke from the early
1960s.
JFK, RFK, and Mayor Daley are stranded on
a life raft with only enough food for one to survive.
They decide to have an election to see who it
will be. Each makes a speech: JFK, "I am the
leader of the free world." RFK, "I must enforce
the laws of the US [attorney general then]", Mayor
Daley, "I lead the world's most important city."
The outcome of the vote was that Mayor Daley
beat JFK by 7-2.
Barkley Rosser
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, November 13, 2000 12:37 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:4370] Re: Update on the 1960 Election
>The Chicago affair was far more democratic than the Florida fiasco. Mayor
>Daley was very democratic, extending the vote to the dearly departed as
well
>as the living. Just as we applaud giving the vote to poor people or women,
>we should do not deny the privileges of participating in the democratic
>process to those who reside in the cemeteries.
>
>I cannot understand why Richard Daley has not made this clear to the
>American public.
>
>Barry Rene DeCicco wrote:
>
>> There is an article in 'Journalism Quarterly' by Edmnund Kallina,
>> discussing this (from 1985; the date is not on the pages that I copied).
>> In that article, there is a report mentioned, by Morris Wexler,
>> a special prosecutor investigating allegations of vote fraud in Chicago.
>> The report is supposedly available from the Chicago Historical Society;
>> I'll know for sure on Tuesday.
>>
>> If anybody has any further information on allegations of vote fraud
>> raised by the GOP in the 1960 presidential election, in Chicago or
>> elsewhere, or on the re-counts conducted in Hawwaii and California,
>> I'd appreciate getting it.
>>
>> Barry
>
>--
>
>Michael Perelman
>Economics Department
>California State University
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Chico, CA 95929
>530-898-5321
>fax 530-898-5901
>
>
