Subject: Re: [EL] Question about federal prosecutions between 1900 and 1930 for election fraud and the like
From: David Epstein
Date: 12/7/2010, 6:09 PM
To: nathaniel persily
CC: "Rick.Hasen@lls.edu" <Rick.Hasen@lls.edu>, "election-law@mailman.lls.edu" <election-law@mailman.lls.edu>

Hi Nate,

I remember something about the Committee of Seventy, a reform group ferreting out electoral fraud around that time.

There's a page describing them at: http://www.seventy.org/AboutUs_19041950.aspx. It refers to prosecutions, but without explicit details.

Hope this helps,

David

On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 7:59 PM, nathaniel persily <nate@persily.com> wrote:
Does anyone know of examples of federal prosecutions for election fraud in the period between 1900 and 1930?  Although I would be interested in prosecutions for any type of fraud, I am particularly interested in vote buying, ballot box stuffing, and tinkering with election results.


Nathaniel Persily
Charles Keller Beekman Professor of Law and
    Political Science
Columbia Law School
Jerome Greene Hall
435 West 116th Street
New York, NY 10027
(917) 570-3223
nate@persily.com



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