people and getting away with it big time like the people i talk about in the case of saint martingale louisiana who didn't hold the local council election for 12 years because if they did a black person would have gotten his seat and blacks would have a majority in on the council and they would control patronage and they were not going to put up with this so they just didn't have an election until they were actually forced to and then even when they were forced to what they did was use a lot of shenanigans that i talk about in the book and pretend that there were voters who live there and paid money to this person and that person because they were not going to give up that patronage and if the federal government had not been invoked, he got the feds to comment because the locals weren't going to do anything, the local d.a. was part of it and force that woman who is sitting in the seat whose whole family had held that seat from the time anybody could remember. something happened even after they did all of that the mayor who gets to appoint somebody to the office says you black people want in the