In 2004 Dino Rossi's transition work moving into the governorship of Washington was derailed many weeks in, when his victory was overturned on the third recount, in the closest gubernatorial election in US history (133 votes "final").
In 1860 there were many precincts with voter turnout over 100%.
Even in 1776 the votes relating to the Continental Congress were rigged in various ways, funded by fiat "continentals". Dozens, like George Mason and William Bradford, were elected but refused to serve. Robert Livingston helped outline and write the Declaration but then got recalled and didn't sign it (New York didn't vote in favor of the Declaration and was even more skittish about the Constitution, pulling all delegates except rump member Alexander Hamilton). We don't know who if anyone signed the Declaration on July 4, the date the text was adopted; the main meeting to sign it was August 2, while the vote that declared independence and actually birthed the nation was July 2, the actual "independence day" that John Adams wanted celebrated annually with fireworks. The quest for the illusion of unanimity was paramount and is preserved by Murrican mythos.
In 2004 Dino Rossi's transition work moving into the governorship of Washington was derailed many weeks in, when his victory was overturned on the third recount, in the closest gubernatorial election in US history (133 votes "final").
In 1860 there were many precincts with voter turnout over 100%.
Even in 1776 the votes relating to the Continental Congress were rigged in various ways, funded by fiat "continentals". Dozens, like George Mason and William Bradford, were elected but refused to serve. Robert Livingston helped outline and write the Declaration but then got recalled and didn't sign it (New York didn't vote in favor of the Declaration and was even more skittish about the Constitution, pulling all delegates except rump member Alexander Hamilton). We don't know who if anyone signed the Declaration on July 4, the date the text was adopted; the main meeting to sign it was August 2, while the vote that declared independence and actually birthed the nation was July 2, the actual "independence day" that John Adams wanted celebrated annually with fireworks. The quest for the illusion of unanimity was paramount and is preserved by Murrican mythos.