Jan. 9, 1975:
The two candidates in the still-undecided 1974 New Hampshire Senate race, Republican Louis Wyman and Democrat John Durkin, took their case before a Senate subcommittee. The N.H. Ballot Law Commission ruled that Wyman won the race by two votes, but Durkin appealed the decision to the entire Senate.
(With the Senate hopelessly deadlocked, a new election was called, for September 1975, which Durkin won.)
(P.S. Yes, I know, today would have been Richard Nixon's 96th birthday. But he got a "This Day" mention yesterday. Fair is fair.
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