[nesnah]

Sure, the votes were rigged; but our founding fathers never envisioned giving the Vice President the power to remedy this.

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This is the first I’ve heard of this. Could you cite some of their contemporary writings to support this assertion?

[Alberta's Child]

Remember that the founders of this country also probably would have been repulsed by the idea that every adult in the U.S. who was capable of breathing on a mirror would have been entitled to vote.

The population of the U.S. exceeded a million people in 1790, but George Washington only got something like 28,000 popular votes in the 1792 election.