AMERICAN ELECTIONS ARE A MESS, AND THEY ALWAYS HAVE BEEN.

The article looks at disputed and dishonest elections in the history of the U.S. Topics include a description of the events in the presidential election of 1876 that inaugurated Rutherford B. Hayes as the 19th president, the electoral disputes involving the country's Founding Fathers such as New York's 1792 gubernatorial election race between Federalist Party's John Jay and incumbent Governor George Clinton, and the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump.