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    The Electoral Votes of 1876: Who Should Count Them, What Should Be Counted, and the Remedy for a Wrong Count
    The Electoral Votes of 1876: Who Should Count Them, What Should Be Counted, and the Remedy for a Wrong Count
    The Electoral Votes of 1876: Who Should Count Them, What Should Be Counted, and the Remedy for a Wrong Count
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    The Electoral Votes of 1876: Who Should Count Them, What Should Be Counted, and the Remedy for a Wrong Count

    By David Dudley Field

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateApr 25, 2021
    ISBN4064066131197
    The Electoral Votes of 1876: Who Should Count Them, What Should Be Counted, and the Remedy for a Wrong Count

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      The Electoral Votes of 1876 - David Dudley Field

      David Dudley Field

      The Electoral Votes of 1876

      Who Should Count Them, What Should Be Counted, and the Remedy for a Wrong Count

      Published by Good Press, 2022

      [email protected]

      EAN 4064066131197

      Table of Contents

      WHO SHOULD COUNT THEM, WHAT SHOULD BE COUNTED, AND THE REMEDY FOR A WRONG COUNT.

      DAVID DUDLEY FIELD.

      Who should count the Votes?

      What Votes should be counted.

      The Remedy for a Wrong Count

      APPENDIX.

      APPLETONS' PERIODICALS.

      APPLETONS' JOURNAL

      THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY.

      THE ART JOURNAL

      APPLETONS'

      AMERICAN CYCLOPÆDIA.

      NEW REVISED EDITION.

      THE

      PRESIDENTIAL COUNTS

      A COMPLETE OFFICIAL RECORD

      OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS AT THE COUNTING OF THE ELECTORAL VOTES IN ALL THE ELECTIONS OF PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES; TOGETHER WITH ALL CONGRESSIONAL LEGISLATION INCIDENT THERETO, OR TO PROPOSED LEGISLATION UPON THAT SUBJECT.

      WHO SHOULD COUNT THEM, WHAT SHOULD

      BE COUNTED, AND THE REMEDY

      FOR A WRONG COUNT.

      Table of Contents

      BY

      DAVID DUDLEY FIELD.

      Table of Contents

      NEW YORK:

      D. APPLETON AND COMPANY,

      549 & 551 BROADWAY.

      1877.

      THE ELECTORAL VOTES OF 1876.

      Table of Contents

      Who should Count them,

      What should be Counted, and

      The Remedy for a Wrong Count.

      The electoral votes of 1876 have been cast. The certificates are now in Washington, or on their way thither, to be kept by the President of the Senate until their seals are broken in February. The certificates and the votes of thirty-four of the States are undisputed. The remaining four are debatable, and questions respecting them have arisen, upon the decision of which depends the election of the incoming President. These questions are: Who are to count the votes; what votes are to be counted; and what is the remedy for a wrong count? I hope not to be charged with presumption if, in fulfilling my duty as a citizen, I do what I can toward the answering of these questions aright; and, though I happen to contribute nothing toward satisfactory answers, I shall be excused for making the effort.

      The questions themselves have no relation to the relative merits of the two candidates. Like other voters, I expressed my own preference on the morning of the election. That duty is discharged; another duty supervenes, which is, to take care that my vote is counted and allowed its due place in the summary of the votes. Otherwise the voting performance becomes ridiculous, and the voter deserves to be laughed at for his pains. His duty—to cast his vote according to his conscience—was clear; it is no less his duty to make the vote felt, along with other like votes, according to the laws.

      The whole duty of a citizen is not ended when his vote is delivered; there remains the obligation to watch it until it is

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