In the strangest events in the American elections historically

A candidate runs his election campaign from prison ... and another dies while counting votes

The statue of George Washington who won acclamation as America's first president.

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The conflict rages on between the two presidential candidates, President Donald Trump and his rival, Joe Biden, in the 2020 US elections, and millions of Americans have already voted, either personally or via postal ballot papers, as voters find safe ways to make their political choices against the backdrop of the Corona pandemic.

While these elections are considered one of the strangest counterparts in American history, due to their validity in the period of the spread of "Covid-19", they are not the most strange first, and here are some of the strangest American elections in the world:

The president wins unanimously

Going back to the beginning of the history of the American elections, the story of the only American president, elected by consensus, appears.

America was a newly independent country, after it severed its relations with Great Britain on July 4, 1776, and this day is considered the internationally recognized Independence Day of the United States of America.

As the first elections approached in 1788, the United States consisted of only 13 states.

Only 10 states allow voting in the election. North Carolina and Rhode Island have yet to ratify the new US Constitution, and New York has not appointed voters in time.

Of these ten states, only citizens of six states are allowed to vote, and are white males, while the other four states have reserved the decision for state legislators.

And there was no real campaign, as everyone was in agreement about the ultimate winner, George Washington.

The elections used the Electoral College system, as each state was allocated a different number of votes based on its size and population, and a modified version of this system is still in use today.

There were 72 voters, although only 69 actually cast their votes.

Each voter was entitled to two electoral votes (in order to elect a president and a vice president), and all 69 voters cast their votes for Washington, which is the maximum possible candidate.

A woman and a black man nominate themselves

The 1872 election marked a series of remarkable first events in the political history of the United States, as Victoria Woodhull became the first woman to run for president, representing the Equal Rights Party, and her running mate was Frederick Douglass, the first African American to be chosen for the role.

But while Woodhull and Douglas made history, they didn't get many votes.

In Woodhull's case, she was not even allowed to vote for herself, because the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which grants women the right to vote, had not yet been ratified.

The two main candidates in the election were Ulysses S.

Grant, Republican, and opponent Horace Greeley.

Greeley was a publisher of the New York newspaper and was supported by two major parties, the Liberal Republicans and the Democrats.

The death of a candidate

The election saw Grant overwhelmingly win, winning the popular vote (the total number of votes cast) and 286 electoral votes, compared to Greeley's 66.

Less than a month after the election, before the Electoral College confirmed its vote, Greeley died, becoming the only presidential candidate to die during the election.

Upon his death, Greeley was no longer eligible for the 66 Electoral College votes, which were then reassigned to other candidates.

A candidate is running his campaign from prison

The American elections of 1920 witnessed a landslide victory for Republican candidate Warren J. Harding, as Harding defeated Democrat James M. Cox with 404 electoral votes to 127, and won more than 60% of the popular vote in the election.

Harding had a winning margin of 26.2%, the largest margin of any disputed US election.

And since these were the first elections in America in which women had the right to vote in all 48 states in the country, the popular vote increased from 18.5 million four years ago to 26.8 million.

The elections also saw socialist Eugene Debs win with fewer than a million votes across the country, the highest percentage ever for a socialist candidate.

Debs ranked third in the overall standings, but he failed to win the Electoral College, but what makes his role special in the history of the elections is that he ran his entire campaign from prison.

Two years before the elections, Debs delivered an anti-war speech protesting the military drafts of World War One.

He was arrested and charged with incitement to sedition for violating the espionage law that prohibits criticism of the government and imprisoned, but he promised to pardon himself if he succeeded in the elections.

Dewey defeats Truman

In the 1948 elections, President Harry S.

Truman for re-election, after rising to the presidency after the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt three years earlier.

But the Democrat was widely expected to lose the election, as his opponent, the Republican Governor of New York, Thomas E. Dewey, comfortably led him in the polls.

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The US elections have used the Electoral College system since its inception, whereby a different number of votes were allocated to each state based on its size and population, and a modified version of this system is still in use today.

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