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Allain denied the claims,<ref name="Time"/> the tranvestites took a lie detector test, but in 1984, after the gubernatorial election had been held, they claimed that they had never met Allain and had not been paid for their testimony.<ref name="Howard2"/><ref name="rockhill">{{citation |periodical=''The Rock Hill Herald''|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=3S0tAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Gb0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=2384,1323234&dq=bill-allain&hl=en |title=Transvestites withdraw allegations}}</ref>   
 
Allain denied the claims,<ref name="Time"/> the tranvestites took a lie detector test, but in 1984, after the gubernatorial election had been held, they claimed that they had never met Allain and had not been paid for their testimony.<ref name="Howard2"/><ref name="rockhill">{{citation |periodical=''The Rock Hill Herald''|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=3S0tAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Gb0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=2384,1323234&dq=bill-allain&hl=en |title=Transvestites withdraw allegations}}</ref>   
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Bramlett lost the [[general election]], 288,764 (38.9 percent) to Allain's 409,209 (55.1 percent). James Charles Evers (1922-2020), the African American [[civil rights]] activist from Fayette and the brother of slain [[Medgar Evers]], ran as an Independent and polled 30,593 (votes 4.1 percent).<ref name=campaigns/> Carmichael ran in 1983 for lieutenant governor against the incumbent Democrat Bradford Johnson "Brad" Dye, Jr. (1933-2018), who prevailed with 464,080 votes (64.3 percent) to Carmichael's 257,623 (35.7 percent). Bramlett hence outpolled Carmichael by just over 31,000 votes when both were on the ballot as ticket mates.<ref name=campaigns/>
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Bramlett lost the [[general election]], 288,764 (38.9 percent) to Allain's 409,209 (55.1 percent). James Charles Evers (1922-2020), the African American [[civil rights]] activist from Fayette and the brother of slain [[Medgar Evers]] (1925-1963), ran as an Independent and polled 30,593 (votes 4.1 percent).<ref name=campaigns/> Carmichael ran in 1983 for lieutenant governor against the incumbent Democrat Bradford Johnson "Brad" Dye, Jr. (1933-2018), who prevailed with 464,080 votes (64.3 percent) to Carmichael's 257,623 (35.7 percent). Bramlett hence outpolled Carmichael by just over 31,000 votes when both were on the ballot as ticket mates.<ref name=campaigns/>
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Bramlett also served as the in-state representative for the late Republican [[U.S. Senator]] [[Thad Cochran]], first elected to the U.S. House in 1972 and the Senate in 1978.<ref name=campaigns/>
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Bramlett also served as the in-state representative for the late Republican [[U.S. Senator]] [[Thad Cochran]], a [[Moderate Republican]] first elected to the U.S. House in 1972 and the Senate in 1978.<ref name=campaigns/>
    
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