This Is What Democracy Looked Like

This Is What Democracy Looked Like
Authors
Cheng, Alicia Yin
Publisher
Princeton Architectural Press
Tags
history , politics
ISBN
9781616898878
Date
2020-05-26T00:00:00+00:00
Size
32.43 MB
Lang
en
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This Is What Democracy Looked Like , 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 skullduggery, as parties printed their own tickets and voters risked their lives going to the polls.