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Many historians argue fraud effected the outcome of the Kennedy-Nixon 1960 election. The two key states were Texas and Illinois and between Lyndon B. Johnon's Texas were in some counties more people voted than lived there and with Mayor Daley's magnificent reputation for fraud in Illinois there is a strong case to be made.
Today we have elections not where there are more votes than people but where there are more votes than there are registered voters. Imagine that.
My understanding of Kennedy-Nixon is that while a number of Republicans claimed fraud Nixon didn't - and didn't bother to contest any of the voting results. Those results that were contested by the Republican party, apparently without Nixon's blessing, were confirmed in all cases except one that was originally for Nixon but actually went to Kennedy.
Given Nixon's personality it's hard for me to see that he would have walked away from the election unless he personally was absolutely sure that there was no fraud. I'd think Nixon would have been in court instantly if he even suspected the election results were tainted.
As to the other can you provide non-biased sources? I've heard tell of dead registered voters but looking at some of those cases closer it usually turns out that people are complaining of registered voters who recently died and hadn't yet been removed from the election rolls.