The following from a local newspaper report:-
"There are three old, possibly apocryphal sayings — iron laws of a peculiar kind of political life, really — describing the genius of a political machine that ran Chicago for decades with clockwork precision, ensuring the predictability of results in order to guarantee the continuity of the political machine’s power. The first was: “Vote early and vote often.” The second: “The preliminary results are close and the dead people will be coming out in droves to vote.” The third: “We are going to keep counting these votes all night until they come out right."
The above sound very much like how Stalin dealt with elections when he said - "Elections are important, but what is more important is who counts the votes."
I can remember how the Mafia engineered the outcome of Illinois in the 1960 elections and it seems to be the same rules still apply to Chicago today.