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Joseph C. Goulden, in his history of immediate post-war America, The Best Years 1945–1950, discussed the Battle of Athens, how it sparked political ex-GI movements in three other Tennessee counties, as well as other boss-ruled Southern states, led to a convention with representatives from several Southern states, and how it raised fears that ...
Types of fraud include voter impersonation or in-person voter fraud, mail-in or absentee ballot fraud, illegal voting by noncitizens, and double voting. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The United States government defines voter or ballot fraud as one of three broad categories of federal election crimes, the other two being campaign finance crimes and civil ...
The 1888 United States presidential election in Tennessee took place on November 6, 1888, as part of the 1888 United States presidential election. Tennessee voters chose 12 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. [2] For over a century after the Civil War, Tennessee's white citizenry ...
Electoral fraud, sometimes referred to as election manipulation, voter fraud, or vote rigging, involves illegal interference with the process of an election, either by increasing the vote share of a favored candidate, depressing the vote share of rival candidates, or both. [1] It differs from but often goes hand-in-hand with voter suppression.
Following is a table of United States presidential elections in Tennessee, ordered by year. Since its admission to statehood in 1796, Tennessee has participated in every U.S. presidential election except the election of 1864, during the American Civil War. At that time, Tennessee was controlled by the Union and held elections, but electors were ...
1894 Tennessee gubernatorial election ← 1892 November 6, 1894 1896 → Nominee Peter Turney Henry Clay Evans A. L. Mims Party Democratic Republican Populist Popular vote 94,620 92,266 23,092 Percentage 45.06% 43.94% 11.00% County results Turney: 40–50% 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% 80–90% Evans: 40–50% 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% 80–90% >90% Governor before election Peter Turney ...
Drawing on the false claims of widespread voting fraud and a stolen election, by February 2021 Republican state legislatures had begun to implement new laws and rules to restrict voting access in ways that would favor Republican candidates. [193] By April 2021, 361 bills in 47 states have been proposed by GOP lawmakers meant to restrict voting ...
White Democrats in West Tennessee were always aiming to eliminate black political influence, which they first attempted to do by election fraud in the middle 1880s and did so much more successfully at the end of the decade by instituting in counties with significant black populations a secret ballot that prevented illiterates voting, [5] and a ...