The returns received from the Maine election indicate, on a comparison with last year, that the Republicans, who were then in a minority of nearly 13,000, have gained 22,000 votes, and very nearly ...

Mt. Katahdin in Maine. (Robert F. Bukaty/Associated Press) In most American elections, the winner is the person who gets the most votes, even if he gets less than half.

The cause of the strife was the way votes were counted in Maine’s 1879 election. Republicans thought they had won control of the Legislature and the governorship, but the Democrat-controlled ...

And when his party lost the election in 1879, he disenfranchised as many voters as it took to steal it back. Of course, there are more charitable takes on Alonzo Garcelon’s role in the scandal that ...