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From: jdb@qubix.UUCP (Jeff Bulf)
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Subject: Re: Nixon charges fraud in 1960 Chicago
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Date: Thu, 3-May-84 17:02:26 EDT
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I was only of high-school age at the the time. The election that year was the
first I paid active attention to.

As I recall (anybody got sources?) the sequence of events went this way:

    1. Nixon charges fraud in CHICAGO. Talk of re-counting the city.

    2. Counter-demand from Demos: Re-count ENTIRE STATE.

    3. Whole matter died away.

Interpretation as I remember it from the time:

    Because of the way Illinois was districted at the time, it took four Chicago
votes to have the impact of a single downstate vote. The downstate vote in this
election had gone largely Republican, the Chicago vote largely Democratic.

If the entire state were re-counted, the Republicans would have had to come up
with four favorable changes in Chicago four every one that the Demos found
downstate.

     Let's here it for the battle of the pots and kettles! 
-- 
	Dr Memory
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