https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1876_U...ntial_election
Highest voter turnout of eligible voters: 81.3%
TILDEN won but when Florida, Louisiana and South Carolina set two electoral delegations to the Electoral College, THEN fought out the result and came up with a result that
DID NOT REFLECT the wishes of any voter: Reconstruction was halted so the south could reverse things and start Jim Crow laws.
The mechanisms are there for a coup