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Question 17: Voter Fraud?

April 17, 2021

The Love-Feast, or Stuffing. Cartoon by Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly criticizing Democrats for stuffing ballot boxes in 1880.

In the close race for Governor between William Buckingham and Thomas Seymour in 1860, the Republicans accused the Democrats of what act of fraud?

  1. Changing ballots
  2. Destroying ballots
  3. Allowing ineligible voters to vote
    4.
  4. Inaccurate counting of the ballots

Republicans insisted the victory should have been even larger, charging that Democrats had imported ineligible voters from New York and that New York’s mayor, Fernando Wood, had organized and paid for the fraud.

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