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I was intrested how the electorial college actually worked so I looked it up in my trusty world books. It was about like I rememberd from my high school history lessons, but behind that article was another called electorial commission. This is what was intresting. following is a passage from my World Books about Electorial Commission. ELECTORIAL COMMISSION was a group created by Congress in 1877 to decide who won the presidential election. Both Republicans and Democrats claimed to have won.Samuel J Tildon,the Democratic candidate, had 184 electorial votes, or one short of a majority in the Electorial College.Rutherford B Hayes, the republican candidate, had 165 votes. Twenty votes were disputed, 19 of them from Florida, Louisiana and South Carolina, where Reconstruction{My input (carpet bagger infiltration)}(the book said see reconstruction, another story)The Other disputed vote came from Oregon, where the elgibility of one republican elector had been questioned and a certificate of election had been issued to his rival.As a matter of policy the Democrats automatically questioned the results of each election board. To settle the matter Congress created the Electorial Commission. It was made up of 15 members: five Senators, five representatives, and five supreme court justices. 3 republican senators, two Democrats, three democrat representatives and two republicans two democrat justices and two republicanswith the power to choose a fifth among them, no democrat was available so the fifth was a republican. The commission gave all the disputed votes to Hayes. The intresting thing about this is, Florida and Oregon were the Last ones to vote. LOL and the Republicans won!!!!! Bill
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