Who was the rightful winner of the 1960 election?

[minionofmidas]

Nixon arguably won the popular vote. (What's the popular vote worth though when a large proportion of the population is prevented from voting, at least de facto on account of race?)
The Democrats won the presidential election, even if - as is unlikely but distinctly possible - Texas or Illinois was stolen. The Southern Ind. Democrats were Democrats too.

[minionofmidas]

Nixon arguably won the popular vote. (What's the popular vote worth though when a large proportion of the population is prevented from voting, at least de facto on account of race?)
The Democrats won the presidential election, even if - as is unlikely but distinctly possible - Texas or Illinois was stolen. The Southern Ind. Democrats were Democrats too.

The question was who was the rightful winner of the election.

So you're saying that whoever won the popular vote is the rightful winner of the election?
Just checking if I got you correctly.

[minionofmidas]

There wouldn't even have been any Byrd electors in that case. They were Democrats after all.

Hawai'i wasn't a case of fraud. The certificate was factually incorrect - tallying up all the precinct figures it was based on gives a narrow Dem win.