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Ballot Battles
The 2000 presidential race resulted in the highest-profile ballot battle in over a century. But it is far from the only American election determined by a handful of votes and marred by claims of fraud. Since the founding of the nation, violence frequently erupted as the votes were being counted, and more than a few elections produced manifestly unfair results. Despite America's claim to be the world's greatest democracy, its adherence to the basic tenets of democratic elections-the ability to count ballots accurately and fairly even when the stakes are high-has always been shaky. A rigged gubernatorial election in New York in 1792 nearly ended in calls for another revolution, and an 1899 gub...
Digest of Election Cases. Cases of Contested Elections in the House of Representatives, Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Congresses, from 1876-1880, Inclusive
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Digest of Election Cases. Cases of Contested Elections in the House of Representatives, Forty-seventh Congress, from 1880 to 1882, Inclusive
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Contentious Elections
From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe the world has witnessed a rising tide of contentious elections ending in heated partisan debates, court challenges, street protests, and legitimacy challenges. In some cases, disputes have been settled peacefully through legal appeals and electoral reforms. In the worst cases, however, disputes have triggered bloodshed or government downfalls and military coups. Contentious elections are characterized by major challenges, with different degrees of severity, to the legitimacy of electoral actors, procedures, or outcomes. Despite growing concern, until recently little research has studied this phenomenon. The theory unfolded in this volume suggests that problems of...
Cases of Contested Elections in Congress, from 1834 to 1865, Inclusive
Reprint of the original, first published in 1865.
