Never forget that one of the proposed reasons for the death of Poe was that he was grabbed by a local Mafia, and forced to vote in an election a half dozen times in different clothes while becoming more incoherent due to them hitting him and possibly boozing him.

Because that's just a thing they literally did in those days to a point where it could just happen to random guys on the street. But they won't teach you that in history class because "elections are safe and secure forever chud."