The attempt to repeal these election laws naturally suggests the frauds perpetrated in the city of New York in 1868. In the language of the committee that investigated that outrage. "probably more than fifty thousand fraudulent votes were cast." The lawful vote elected a republican governor. the criminal vote gave the chief magistracy of that great State to the man who was not elected. Over sixtythree thousand spurious naturalization papers were issued. Hundreds of repeaters "voted from two to forty times or more." Frauds were extonsivelycommitted in canvassing the vote. Says that committee: Through these agencies the democratic electors of President ad VicePresident and the democratic candidate for governor of the State of New York were frandulently elected.
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