Voting in the 19th century usually involved casting a printed paper ballot. State election laws typically specified the dimensions and thickness of the paper, and the size of type to be used. The rest ...

Republicans have been dealt a setback in how mail-in ballots are counted in the battleground state of Nevada. The Nevada ...

At the 1860 Republican convention, for example, William Seward received by far the largest number of votes on the first ballot ... winning the West Virginia primary in 1960 was a way for John ...

In a society like ours, where every man may transmute his private thought into history and destiny by dropping it into the ballot-box ... from 1789 to 1815 or 1860. If Mr. Bell loves the ...

Yes, this is what Fire-Eater Southern Democrats said about former Congressman Abraham Lincoln during the 1860 presidential ... Democrats kept Lincoln off the ballots in the South, just as they ...

The system was created to balance power between large and small states. The Electoral College forms an instrumental part of the US election process. Established in 1787, it has its roots in slavery ...

Adam’s people labeled Jefferson an atheist, a coward and “the son of a half-breed Indian squaw, sired by a Virginia mulatto ... after casting 35 ballots in a week, picked Jefferson as ...

As today’s candidates for Washington governor trade barbs, the state's history is filled with figures whose actions could be ...

Abraham Lincoln’s election in 1860 was the catalyst that caused southern ... But Scott was born in Virginia, and Lincoln felt ...

“This will be one of the most important elections in American history,” said Jack Pitney, a professor of political science at ...

Kaine, Beyer, Downs Also Get FCNP Nod America is on the eve of its most consequential election since 1860, characterized by the major media as a dead heat for U.S. president between the remarkably ...