That group formed a slate of seven Douglas Democrats, which included the three on the fusion ticket.

[5] At the time, election authorities did not issue pre-printed ballots with all candidates' names, to be marked by voters.

Instead, each voter wrote his votes down on a piece of paper or used a pre-printed ballot distributed by a political party or faction that had only the names of that group's candidates.

The voter could modify a pre-printed ballot by crossing off or writing over one or more of the printed names.

It appears that the names of some of the Breckinridge or Bell electors were crossed off or replaced by 400 to 2,000 fusion-ticket voters.