After a quorum was finally established, Congress counted and certified the electoral vote on April 6, 1789. “Elections were such a big deal, they were an all day affair,” says King ...
The first U.S. presidential election occurred 235 years ago, in 1789. It was a small election (about 28,000 voters) without attack ads, noisy political conventions, assassination attempts and ...
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 ...
Citizen AG, which is legally known as the 1789 Foundation, Inc., sees its mission as both ensuring that states “inspect their voter rolls and remove ineligible voters prior to election day” and ...
As black populations (including slaves) were included when calculating electoral representation, white southerners therefore had a disproportionate influence on U.S. elections throughout most of ...