Annotation

Campaign fraud involved different ways of casting multiple ballots. "Repeaters" would cast one ballot after another at the same polling place. Some would grow beards well before the election, then shave three times to produce progressively different appearances. "Phantom voters" registered with names and addresses of people who had died, moved, or never lived at the address on file. "Floaters" would vote at several different polling places. This illustration depicts the arrest of a "repeater" during the 1896 election between McKinley and William Jennings Bryan.