See this Los Angeles Times article on a Carson, California election contest, which begins: “On election day last March, Julie Raber, then a candidate for the Carson City Council, was so grateful to poll workers that she donned her Sunday best and passed out cinnamon cookies at voting stations throughout the city. Raber won her seat by 181 votes, out of nearly 17,000 cast. But now her opponent in that race, bail bondswoman and former City Councilwoman Vera DeWitt, is alleging in a civil lawsuit that the snickerdoodle giveaway amounted to a crime in a city with a history of municipal scandals.”