[4CJ]

My link clearly says unionists were not encouraged to participate.

Could you please point to the link. If you allege vote fraud due to their participation being "not encouraged", wouldn't that mean that in the 1864 election vote fraud also occurred?

[#3Fan]

Could you please point to the link.

Go back about 800 posts. You've read it, we discussed it a long time. Is your memory fading? I'm not taking a half hour to backtrack.

If you allege vote fraud due to their participation being "not encouraged", wouldn't that mean that in the 1864 election vote fraud also occurred?

I'd say vote fraud occured in every election since our founding. The question is "to what extent?". Handing the gavels of power to those never elected by due process as was done at the conventions is as unrepublican as it gets.