Talk:Debs v. United States
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[edit] 1920 Election
In 1920 Debs took nearly a million votes while sitting behind bars. I've looked around to try to find an authoritative (and sourced) number, and come up with several different numbers numbers from reliable sources. Regardless, the total is roughly 3.4% of the popular vote. 919,799 is the figure from my college US history book (and found elsewhere), although I don't know where that tally comes from.
Another citable number is 897,704. This is the figure given in the 1920 Election Statistics published contemporaneously by the Office of the Clerk of the US House of Representatives, an office which I should emphasize is in no way responsible for keeping official numbers on federal elections. Indeed, the vote totals listed there for all presidential candidates are lower than published elsewhere, leading me to think that these were in some way preliminary totals.
But, again, the percentage is roughly the same.
03:16, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
