text: Presidential election of 1927 King was challenged in the 1927 presidential election by Thomas Faulkner. According to the official statement, King received 234,000 votes; however, Liberia only had 15,000 registered voters at the time. Thus, King was later listed in the Guinness Book of Records for the most fraudulent election reported in history.
  Forced labor and slavery scandal
  After losing the 1927 presidential election to King, Thomas Faulkner accused many members of the True Whig Party government of recruiting and selling contract labor as slaves.  Despite Liberia's firm denials and a refusal to cooperate, the League of Nations established a commission under the leadership of British zoologist Cuthbert Christy to determine the extent of forced labor and slavery still practiced by Liberia. U.S. President Herbert Hoover briefly suspended relations to press Monrovia into compliance.
  In 1930 the League of Nations published the committee's report, dubbed the ‘Christy Report’ after the Committee's chairman.  The report supported many of Faulkner's allegations and implicated many government officials, including vice president Allen Yancy.  It was found that forced labor was used for the construction of certain public works such as roads in the interior. And certain tribes did practice domestic servitude that could be considered as slavery.