2) Congress would ultimately accept or reject those results from the Electoral Commission. In those days, the Electoral College was smaller. The Electoral Commission awarded all contested electoral votes to Hayes, making him President.
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3) Hayes received 185 electoral votes to 185 electoral votes for Tilden. The coalition of GOP senators questionint the integrity of the Electoral College is calling for the creation of a similar committee today.
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4) Hayes had 185 electoral votes. Tilden clocked in at 184 after the Electoral Commission was complete and Congress accepted the results
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@ChadPergram you're doing an outstanding job laying all this complicated stuff out. You're a credit to your profession. -
Congress passed the Electoral Count Act in 1887 precisely because the people who lived through 1876 mistrusted that process & wanted to avoid its repetition. Clown.
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again with the factual history. Thank you
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Congress passed the Electoral Count Act in 1887 precisely because the people who lived through 1876 mistrusted that process & wanted to avoid its repetition.
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This is what journalism used to be.
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It used to be failing to mention that the whole point of the Electoral Count Act of 1887 was to prevent a repeat of 1876?
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Were those three states electors certified by the respective states or not? I think you are leaving out that very relevant and important difference here.
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