Timeline for How much would votes sell for in early America?
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| Feb 17, 2017 at 14:16 | vote | accept | nosyarg | ||
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| Feb 17, 2017 at 4:19 | answer | added | KorvinStarmast | timeline score: 5 | |
| Feb 9, 2016 at 15:25 | history | edited | nosyarg |
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| Feb 9, 2016 at 8:04 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackHistory/status/696967804088688640 | ||
| Feb 9, 2016 at 0:34 | comment | added | bgwiehle | Prevention of buying votes with drinks was one of the reasons that establishments that sell alcohol were prohibited from opening on election day in most jurisdictions, until recently. | |
| Feb 8, 2016 at 23:05 | comment | added | T.E.D.♦ | I don't know about that era exactly, but corruption in Tammany Hall is fairly well documented, as it was under Huey Long (both in the early 20th Century). I vaguely remember reading a work of fiction for school (Upton Sinclair's The Jungle perhaps?) that recorded a character's stint buying votes. There are probably lots of other sources I'm not thinking of. | |
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| Feb 8, 2016 at 22:25 | history | asked | nosyarg | CC BY-SA 3.0 |