Baseball All-Star Game Is No Icon of Honest Voting

There are any number of ironies to Major League Baseball using the All-Star Game as a club to demand that Georgia write election laws exactly the way Georgia Democrats want them written. One of those ironies is that the All-Star Game is itself a notorious festival of open ballot-box stuffing — and sometimes worse — with a long history of controversies about the integrity of the vote, in which MLB has battled for years to keep up with efforts to abuse its voting system.

The most infamous example came in 1957, when fans of the Cincinnati Reds (a third-place team at the break, which finished fourth) engaged in such an egregious campaign that MLB itself threw out some of the results and disenfranchised the fans for over a decade. As MLB.com recounts:

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There are any number of ironies to Major League Baseball using the All-Star Game as a club to demand that Georgia write election laws exactly the way Georgia Democrats want them written. One of those ironies is that the All-Star Game is itself a notorious festival of open ballot-box stuffing — and sometimes worse — with a long history of controversies about the integrity of the vote, in which MLB has battled for years to keep up with efforts to abuse its voting system.

The most infamous example came in 1957, when fans of the Cincinnati Reds (a third-place team at the break, which finished fourth) engaged in such an egregious campaign that MLB itself threw out some of the results and disenfranchised the fans for over a decade. As MLB.com recounts: