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VOTES FOR PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT-Continued.

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(1) Party division had not been created at the time of the first election for
President, and in some of the subsequent elections in the early days, party lines
were not observed with respect to a few of the minor candidates.

(2) The popular vote does not appear in the table until 1824, because in most
of the States before that time the people did not vote directly for Presidential
Electors, these being chosen by the Legislatures. In only six of the twenty-four
States did the Legislature exercise this function in 1824-Vermont, New York,
Delaware, South Carolina, Georgia and Louisiana. All except Delaware and South
Carolina adopted the popular vote plan of choosing Electors by 1828. Delaware
did this immediately afterwards, but South Carolina clung to the Legislative
appointment system until 1868.

(3) In all the elections along to and including that of 1800, the Presidential
Electors voted for two persons. The one receiving the highest vote, if a majority,
became President, and the one getting the next highest became Vice-President.
The tie vote in 1800 between Jefferson and Burr led to the adoption of the twelfth
amendment to the Constitution, by which the Electors are required to vote for
President and Vice-President separately. That system went into effect in 1804 and
has been in operation ever since.

Charles H. Matchett, New York

(4) Republican was the name adopted by Jefferson's party which was founded
in 1792. It was sometimes called Democratic-Republican, but the latter part of the
name was dropped around 1828, when Jackson was elected the first time. Just
about the same time the Adams and Clay element, the broad construction faction,
began to call itself the National Republican party. This element in 1834 became
the nucleus of the Whig party founded in that year.

(5) The tie vote in 1800 between Jefferson and Burr sent the contest to the
House of Representatives, which body elected Jefferson President.

(6) None of the candidates in 1824 receiving a majority in the electoral college,
the House of Representatives made a choice between the three highest, electing
Adams. Jefferson (in his first election) and Adams were the only Presidents
chosen by the House.

(7) Johnson was elected Vice-President by the Senate. He was the only Vice-
President chosen in this way.

(8) The votes not counted in 1864 were those of the eleven seceded States. Those omitted in 1868 belonged to the States not reconstructed, and those left out in 1872 were excluded because of disputed counts.

(9) Horace Greeley having died between the time the people and the Presidential Electors voted, the Electors scattered their votes among various persons.

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