A Kansas Memory Podcast

Election Fraud: The Howard Committee Report

The documents used in the Election Fraud podcast are available on Earlier Kansas Memory podcasts used documents from Territorial Kansas Online: A Virtual Repository for Territorial Kansas History, 1854-1861.

• The Howard Committee Report
  1856
  The Howard Committee was established by the U.S. congress to investigate the widespread claims of voting fraud in Kansas Territory. Excerpts highlighting some of the violence and intimidation from the over 1300 pages of testimony are used in this podcast.