Jim Clyburn spoke about the 1876 presidential election at the end of his speech at the Aiken County Democratic Party Blue ...

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The 2024 Presidential election is drawing near ... This scenario happened in 2016, 2000, 1888, 1876, and 1824 (By a vote of the House of Reps). Because of those scenarios, many have argued ...

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That describes the aftermath of the 1876 presidential election, which, similar to the outcome of the 2016 contest, was never quite accepted by a large portion of the public. As I detail in my book ...

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That was it. That stopped with this election because it was so incredibly corrupt and people who had the right to vote were not allowed to vote. Then we fast-forward to 1876, the presidential election ...

To date, besides Florida in 1868, the only other instance of a state legislature choosing presidential electors without a popular election came in 1876. The overall conclusion is that the Southern ...