The Barton County Historical Society will host its monthly program at 7 p.m., Monday, Nov. 27, in the Ray Schulz Research Library at the museum, 85 S. Hwy. 281, Great Bend. The subject of the program will be Crazy Presidential Elections presented by Museum Research and Collections Specialist Linda McCaffery. The program is free to historical society members and is $5 for non-members. Folks may join the society at the door the night of the program. Refreshments will be served.

McCaffery will answer the question, “Is the 2000 presidential election with the hanging chads and a final decision by the Supreme Court the craziest election in American History?” Presidential elections from the very first to the most recent are intriguing. Through the years there have been frauds, ballot box stuffings, backroom deals, and even fistfights.

The first election resulted in the man who received the most votes, George Washington, becoming president with the second-most vote getter, John Adams, becoming vice president. Had the U.S. Constitution not been changed, Hillary Clinton would have been Donald Trump’s vice president.

What happens when there are an equal number of electoral votes as happened in 1800? Find out how many ballots it took for Thomas Jefferson to become president. One of the most fateful elections in American History was in 1860, when four men ran for president and Abraham Lincoln won. Find out which election resulted in the Great Compromise but should have been titled the “Great Dirty Deal.”

McCaffery will also cover one infamous Kansas election, the 1930 Goat Gland Election.