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The disputed election of 1876 was disputed over the three states,
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that still had Republican regimes, that had widespread fraud,
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violence and intimidation practice in their elections.
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No one will ever know, as long as we live, exactly who won where,
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although we do have some good guesses now from scholarship.
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But what ensued was the longest disputed election we've ever had.
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The Gore/Bush affair of 2000 lasted, what, thirty-five days
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before the Supreme Court chose our president.
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It isn't going to be a lot different here,
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although the Supreme Court will have only a very limited role.
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The official popular vote count in 1876 was four million,
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two-hundred and eighty-four thousand-