There's been election fraud as long as there have been elections.   The difference is one of scale. Back in "the good ol' days," elections were rigged at the precinct, city, and county level. Now they can so much more easily be rigged at the state and federal level!

Put another way, we still have the dead people and empty lots voting and dirty tricks being pulled to keep legitimate registered voters away from the polls, but on top of all that we now have votes being "counted" via proprietary software owned by partisan corporations and not open to public or non-partisan scrutiny.   And we have the major radio and TV media hiding their heads in the sand and gullibly (or culpably?) rubber-stamping the "results" as legitimate reflections of voter preferences!

Aaarrrrgggghhh!