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The Gilded Age has been popularly linked with political corruption ever since it acquired its name, redolent of fraud and artifice, from the title of the 1873 novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner. Many of the practitioners of the “new political history” have sought to minimize the existence of election fraud in the Gilded Age, at least in the nonsouthem states. Howard Allen and Kay Warren Allen have sensibly considered the problem by attempting to differentiate between types of fraud and evaluating each. Such actions were sometimes so flagrant as to outrage even members of the offending party, and their anguished disclosures of that corrupt conduct constitute evidence of election fraud more persuasive than the accusations of opponents. Despite the subterfuges, legal records do constitute another source of information concerning election fraud. Violence and intimidation at the polls, which caused many voters not to vote, was another type of “deflationary” fraud.
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