The History of Election Rigging

Poe kept a vow of sobriety long enough for it to affect the levels of chemicals you would find in his hair. So he seemed that it seemed that he would have been maintained sobriety up to the time of his death unless he was drugged and or forced to drink. And let's go to the second theory where Noel you alluded to something that I think is a very plausible theory actually. There was a practice in the 19th century wherein gangs of folks associated with a certain political campaign, likely for pay, would round people up and ply them with booze.