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...first time the Electoral College directly denied the presidency to the winner of the popular vote was in 1888. Grover Cleveland, running for re-election, beat Benjamin Harrison by 91,000 in the popular vote but lost, 233 to 168, in the Electoral College. It was a confusing election. Fraud tainted both results. Yet nearly 80% of eligible voters had gone to the polls, and though the popular-vote winner lost the presidency, no one in 1888 seems to have questioned the legitimacy of the result...
...lawyers dispatched to Florida by the Gore campaign announce that they have found evidence of "massive voter fraud": a glove containing O.J. Simpson's DNA found inside a polling booth. They produce records showing that Simpson, a Florida resident, did not vote in the election...
...fact, South Florida has had its history of problems with elections. Most recently, the entire 1997 mayoral election in Miami-Dade County was thrown out because of corruption and voter fraud...
Fidel Castro, naturally, lost no time in going nyah-nyah, and blaming the situation on the "Cuban-American terrorist mafia." The official daily Granma charged that Cuban exiles had committed widespread electoral fraud, and demanded new elections in Florida to prove that it was a democracy rather than "a banana republic." (The Cuban leader may, of course, want to be a bit more prudent about demanding free and fair elections lest his people start getting ideas...
TIME: In this age of corporate accountability, is it desirable or legitimate for the likes of Lloyd's to be immune from prosecution for anything other than fraud...