The first? No.
But he was a master at manipulation through trolling. Read his autobiography now if you havent.
The dude would actually setup "secret societies" to get projects he was working on passed. But instead just setting up one, he'd set up 3, and he'd make sure that everyone in town belonged to 2 of them. That way everyone thought they were special because not only did they belong to one secret society with the other important members of the town, they also belonged to other one that was even more exclusive than the first and he could play them off against each other.
I wish he would truth out something like, "Just here to play some golf and pick up some papers I left in the hotel desk drawer up here. Meant to take them Mar-a-Lago before I left town last time, just forgot to do it."
Because the ballot isn't tied to the voter. It's just recorded as "we mailed out a ballot".
If the person is no longer living at the address, then perfect. They can slip +1 forged ballot in for the candidate of their choice, and no one will show up to dispute it. If there is a dispute, then "Welp, no way to track where it came from and who sent it in illegally, so oh well."
I think it was explained in 2000 Mules.
And it's why getting as many people to show up as possibe is important. The more legit voters, the less room there is in the count for these forged ballots to be slipped in unnoticed.
Same reason cops who abuse their responsibilities and abuse citizens never get fired and are instead put on suspension w/ pay, brought back, and have the negative mark stricken from their record: union contracts that make it impossible to fire people without "arbitration".
Judas rockin' priest.
Meanwhile, the US Marshals are out there shutting down dozens of child trafficking networks and finding hundreds of missing children a month and the minute anyone tries to call them a hero they give most of the credit to local PDs.
Which is what the FBI is supposed to be doing instead of digging through Melania's closet or busting up rigged McDonald's Monopoly games.
If that's the price for a guy puttering around in a soccer mom SUV, how much are guys wearing cowboy hats driving around in 10 year old 2500's with a gun rack and the local Wildlife Association's bumper sticker on it worth?
"Well, sir. We do have one solution, but it's kind of extreme and I don't think you're going to like the part where we hang all of you as a message to the civillians to say 'Try the elections again, and this time don't send us corrupt retards.'"
When I engage an NPC in an argument, I'm not really trying to change their mind or win them over.
I'm trying to win over everyone who's reading the "debate" and not saying anything.