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« on: August 17, 2019, 05:35:02 PM »
In 1940, West Virginia cast 870,000 votes, Maryland cast 620,000, and Virginia only 350,000. During this period the Byrd Organization dominated politics throughout the state. It restricted the franchise to the smallest in the country as a proportion of population.
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