Jim Clyburn spoke about the 1876 presidential election at the end of his speech at the Aiken County Democratic Party Blue ...

An assassination attempt. A new Democratic presidential nominee. A seismic Supreme Court decision. A look back at one of the ...

Nowhere is the complete lack of democracy more apparent than in the system to elect the president of the United States: the ...

That was it. That stopped with this election because it was so incredibly corrupt and people who had the right to vote were not allowed to vote. Then we fast-forward to 1876, the presidential election ...

There isn't one solution to galvanizing the electorate; it's more of a suite of reforms, says Editorials Editor Ginnie Graham ...

A lone exception To date, besides Florida in 1868, the only other instance of a state legislature choosing presidential electors without a popular election came in 1876 . The 1876 presidential contest ...

A lone exception To date, besides Florida in 1868, the only other instance of a state legislature choosing presidential electors without a popular election came in 1876 . The 1876 presidential ...

In the last eight elections, we have seen one key indicator of success: the candidate who wins the popular vote outside ...

For a troubling answer, a new book looks at the aftermath of the 1872 Louisiana governor's election between William Pitt ...

When the US Constitution was written in 1787, the Electoral College was created to pick the US president using a majority ...