There are many theories that are believed to be the cause of Edgar Allan Poe’s death. Many people believe so many reasons could’ve caused the death of him but I personally believe that it may have been “cooping.” Cooping is a method of voter fraud practices by gangs in the 19th century where an unsuspecting victim would be kidnapped, disguised and forced to vote for a specific candidate multiple times under multiple disguised identities. Cooping seems to make more sense of this death. Voter fraud was the most common thing happening in Baltimore around the mid-1800s. The same day that Baltimore was having there election, on October 7, 1849, Poe was discovered lying unconscious on a wooden board outside a bar in Baltimore, and was taken to
