stackyFACTSWhen you're going to rig an election, you might as well go all out and break the laws of mathematics.
When you're going to rig an election, you might as well go all out and break the laws of mathematics. Charles D.B. King won the 1927 presidential election in Liberia with an allegedly staggering 243,000 votes. The only problem was that there were barely 15,000 registered voters in the entire country. The event is still heavily cited as one of the most absurdly obvious and mathematically impossible cases of voter fraud in global history.
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