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Rachel Shelden

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One fun but little known fact about the election: in 1878, Democrats determined to investigate supposed Republican fraud in the election in what was known as the Potter Commission. The Commission turned up a series of coded telegrams and when an intrepid newspaperman cracked the code 1/2 🗃️

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they didn’t reveal the massive voter fraud they claimed Republicans had engaged in but instead an extensive effort by Democrats to bribe election officials in South Carolina and Florida. 2/2 🗃️

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