I believe so. I know that that's how he got elected to the Illinois senate. He paid people to actually go through petitions of the other candidates and one by one got the signatures disqualified (for things like name change after marriage, change of address, etc.) Once they removed enough signatures from the petition so that the other candidates had to be removed from the ballot, presto, Obama wins his seat. The election was a joke, because he didn't run against anyone.