The 1886 New York Mayoral race saw Theodore Roosevelt and the prominent political economist Henry George both lose to a Tammany Hall backed man named Abram Hewitt, through what Wikipedia claims without citation was "believed to be fraud." Do we have reason to believe this election was illegitimate?

by Basilikon
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/u/trc_official has written about this election before and discusses the vote manipulation claims here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/u3jybb/in_1886_political_philosopher_henry_george_and/