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Title"Ah, yes -- we're thinking about considering a possible inquiry"TypeStill ImageCollectionNoteForms part of: Herbert L. Block collection (Library of Congress)SummaryEditorial cartoon drawing showing Dale Alford, the newly elected member of Congress from Arkansas, who won his seat in a write-in campaign in the 1958 mid-term elections. Alford rests with his feet propped up on a ballot box. He is surrounded by garbage cans and trash. In front of the ballot box, a sign reads, "Alford election case." John Q. Public, symbol of the American people, carries a paper, "November, December, January, February, March, April." He looks on in disbelief as an unidentified man says, "Ah, yes - we're thinking about considering a possible inquiry." The Justice Department investigated Alford for a fraud charge - ballot box stuffing - related to his write-in campaign in Arkansas, but the investigation, by April 1959, into its fourth month, had stalled. Alford was eventually found not guilty. He later won a second term in the HouseAuthorized Access PointBlock, Herbert, 1909-2001 "Ah, yes -- we're thinking about considering a possible inquiry"