The 1876 presidential election contest between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden was only resolved after months of wrangling and wheeling and dealing, which left Hayes as the winner by one electoral vote--when Tilden had only been short by one to begin with.
Tilden had more of the popular vote, and almost enough electoral votes, but Hayes had much better support from his party in Congress and in other determinative bodies at the state level.
Through the Compromise of 1877, the Democrats allowed Hayes the presidency, but achieved an end to Reconstruction, which left the way open for states to pass Jim Crow laws.
The Electoral Count Act of 1887 established more firmly some of the procedures involving electoral votes. It's very difficult to read, and may very well be unconstitutional.
Now Congress has multiple efforts going that are looking at amending the Electoral Count Act.
The original Electoral Count Act is two and a half pages long, closely spaced, while the much more spaced-out Electoral Count Modernization Act draft is 42 pages.
There's some interesting wording on pages 7 and 8, where certain catastrophic events that are usually called "acts of God" (while also being within the powers of Satan according to the book of Job), are subject to at least a $10,000 fine and from one to ten years in prison if done to disrupt the counting of electoral votes.
Did Amy Klobuchar write that part?
On page 14, there's a very short three-day limit for filing federal lawsuits.
**** Congress and those who write the legislation for them; I have to go make dinner now.
This song is haunting, although not directly applicable to my personal experience.
There's an interesting semi-parallel in Revelation 7:17 and 8:1:
"...and God shall wipe all tears from their eyes. And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour."
Some years back there were some public comments from famous authors about the Susan in the Narnia books not being present for the Final Battle and what followed. It was framed as bigotry against women and people of average morals.
Neil Gaiman's came in the form of a short story, "The Problem of Susan," which from an excerpt I found is apparently quite vile.
Gaiman has fallen out of public favor as allegations against him have begun to surface.
Two other authors were J. K. Rowling, who ought to know better, and Phillip Pullman, who also writes vile stories, I've been told.
Pastor Douglas Wilson has a lucid, sensitive, and rather long rebuttal to the Problem of Susan; link below.
My own, lesser contribution here, is that C. S. Lewis was a fan of George MacDonald, and MacDonald wrote some vivid portrayals of spiritual devolution. In The Princess and Curdie, Curdie was given the ability to discern which beast a person's moral character was descending into by holding their hand. In ...
