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And lo and behold, the commission met,
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and lo and behold they voted.
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Guess what? It's a suspense.
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They voted eight to seven that the Republican,
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Hayes, had won in Louisiana, florida and South Carolina,
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based on the theory of widespread fraud and violence.
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Now there's a lot to that.
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They never really knew what those voting counts were, to be honest.
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But the way in which the disputed election of 1876 was settled,
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of course, was ultimately not even by that Electoral Commission.
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It was settled in the Wormley Hotel,
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on February 26th and 27th of 1877,