This Is What Democracy Looked Like
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Author: Alicia Yin Cheng
This publication, the first illustrated history of printed ballot design, illuminates the noble but often flawed process at the heart of our democracy. An exploration and celebration of US ballots from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this visual history reveals unregulated, outlandish, and, at times, absurd designs that reflect the explosive growth and changing face of the voting public. The ballots offer insight into a pivotal time in American history – a period of tectonic shifts in the electoral system – fraught with electoral fraud, disenfranchisement, scams, and skull duggery, as parties printed their own tickets and voters risked their lives going to the polls.
ISBN 9781616898878. Princeton Architectural Press. hb. 176 pages. 200 colour ills. 17.1 x 26 cm.
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This publication, the first illustrated history of printed ballot design, illuminates the noble but often flawed process at the heart of our democracy. An exploration and celebration of US ballots from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this visual history reveals unregulated, outlandish, and, at times, absurd designs that reflect the explosive growth and changing face of the voting public. The ballots offer insight into a pivotal time in American history – a period of tectonic shifts in the electoral system – fraught with electoral fraud, disenfranchisement, scams, and skull duggery, as parties printed their own tickets and voters risked their lives going to the polls.
ISBN 9781616898878. Princeton Architectural Press. hb. 176 pages. 200 colour ills. 17.1 x 26 cm.
available