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How important is One Vote?
 | In 1839, Marcus "Landslide" Morton was
elected governor of Massachusetts by one vote. Of the 102,066 votes cast by
the good people of that state, he received exactly 51,034. Had his count
been 51,033, the election would have been thrown into the Legislature, where
he probably would not have won.
"Landslide" also made the record books in 1842 when he won the same office again by one vote, this time in the Legislature. (In those days, Massachusetts governors were elected for terms of one year.) |