What was done to prevent electoral fraud in Texas following the controversial 1948 election?
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Surprisingly, there does not seem to be a lot of information online about what changes took place after the 1948 election. This is probably because what little I could find suggests that not much changed. Texas has a history of distrust of centralized authority, and so strong local control over elections was the norm in 1948 and continued to be the norm after the election.
The most immediate consequence was a reworking of the Texas election code which went into effect in 1951. The new law was a balance between state level executive authority and local control over election results. That election law did "provide for listing of the candidates of one party by another in general elections." The law was subsequently repealed in 1955.
In sum, although the election of 1948 garnered substantial national attention very little substantive reform to prevent future election fraud was enacted.
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Any substantial reform of the endemic corruption engaged in by both major parties, from Atlanta to the Pecos, would most likely of resulted in vastly larger number of Blacks being able to vote. Prior to the Civil Rights era ushered in during the Kennedy administration, this was not a result desired by either party (in the South). In consequence, neither party was much interested in reforming the corruption, just in making political capital of catching the other side out from time to time.
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