There was a review of the vote in Chicago in 1960. A judge found that there were only about 900 votes which were found to be questionable. It is a myth that Nixon was being a big man, when he decided not to ask for a statewide recount in Illinois. At first he was furious, and demanded one. The truth is that the Illinois Republican party told Nixon that they did not want a recount and he relented. Vote fraud in Republican downstate Illinois was much more rampant than in Chicago. There were reports of farmers having their cows vote.