The Election of 1796 (President Infinity Alternate Elections)

The United States Presidential Election of 1796 was the third quadrennial election to determine the President and Vice President of the United States. For the first time, the Electoral College was conducted in its normal form where each elector submitted two ballots for a different person (previously, each ballot had different candidates to ensure the election of George Washington, the 1788 having only Washington and Benjamin Franklin on one ballot, and the 1792 having only Washington on one).

The Second Washington Administration
Washington remained personally popular throughout his second term, but his government decline in popular. The South, in particular, grew discontented with the federal government after the establishment of militia standards and the government's continued neutrality with Britain and France. Further, a growing number of Washingtonians began to feel that Washington would not go far enough by trying to appease the Henrians too much, punctuated by the appointment of Thomas Jefferson as Ambassador to France.