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Apportionment not only determined the power of different states in Congress but, because it allocated electors as well, directly affected the election of the president. Indeed, the peculiar apportionment of 1872, adopted in violation of the prevailing law mandating the method of allocating seats, was directly responsible for the 1876 election of Rutherford B. Hayes with a popular vote minority. Had the previous method been followed, even the Electoral Commission would have been unable to place Hayes in the White House.
Apportionment not only determined the power of different states in Congress but, because it allocated electors as well, directly affected the election of the president. Indeed, the peculiar apportionment of 1872, adopted in violation of the prevailing law mandating the method of allocating seats, was directly responsible for the 1876 election of Rutherford B. Hayes with a popular vote minority. Had the previous method been followed, even the Electoral Commission would have been unable to place Hayes in the White House.
Apportionment not only determined the power of different states in Congress but, because it allocated electors as well, directly affected the election of the president. Indeed, the peculiar apportionment of 1872, adopted in violation of the prevailing law mandating the method of allocating seats, was directly responsible for the 1876 election of Rutherford B. Hayes with a popular vote minority. Had the previous method been followed, even the Electoral Commission would have been unable to place Hayes in the White House.
