[EL] an example of an election overturned

[Josh Blackman]

Thank you for that great example. Was the lawsuit in state court, or
federal court?

My hypothetical was a bit different. The federal court does not order a
do-over of the election. The court simply invalidates the disputed ballots
(assuming they could be segregated). Could a federal court even order this
sort of remedy? (The sort of relief Trump requested).
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On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 6:29 PM J Morgan Kousser <kousser at caltech.edu>
wrote:

>   In Nashville in 1962, State Senator Richard Fulton challenged incumbent
> Congressman J. Carlton Loser (pronounced LOHser) in the Democratic primary,
> winning on election day, but losing when a suspicious number of absentee
> ballots were counted from a machine-controlled ward run by Gene ("Little
> Evil") Jacobs.  An investigation by the *Nashville Tennessean* newspaper
> found that Jacobs had stuffed the ballot box in support of Loser, and a
> subsequent lawsuit overturned the election results and ordered a rerun of
> the election, which Fulton won handily, boosting a long career in which
> Fulton was twice elected mayor.  He was one of two congressmen from Middle
> Tennessee to support the 1964 Civil Rights Act, a courageous act that
> opponents unsuccessfully sought to use against him in subsequent political
> campaigns.  Without the local political celebrity that overcoming fraud
> lent to his name, he might have become a country songwriter.  See, e.g.,
> https://peoplepill.com/people/richard-fulton/.
>
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