In 1800, a partisan deadlock in the Pennsylvania legislature nearly deprived the state of its electoral votes during the presidential contest between Adams and Jefferson. The eventual compromise split the…
The 1876 presidential election between Samuel Tilden and Rutherford B. Hayes resulted in a constitutional crisis over disputed electoral returns in the United States. Congress established a fifteen-member Electoral Commission…
The Twelfth Amendment was ratified in 1804 to reform the United States Electoral College after the tied election of 1800. It required electors to cast separate votes for president and…
