Votes went to the candidate's brotherSourced
An election tally assigned 130 votes to a candidate's brother.
In Vermont's 1860 congressional election, 130 votes from Fairfield were mistakenly credited to Carlos Baxter instead of his brother Portus Baxter, who was running for the state's third district.
A shared surname became an unexpected counting problem.
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