The 2008 United States Presidential Election was a democratic election held in the United States on November 4, 2008. The two main candidates were the Conservative Party's candidate, Sarah Palin of Alaska, and the Socialist Party's candidate, Dennis Kucinich of Ohio. The election was marred by scandal in 2010 as voter fraud and disenfranchisement of minorities in the states of Florida, Delaware and Arkansas led to Palin's victory, when it was later discovered that the actual winner of all three states was Kucinich, thereby making him the actual elected president of the United States.