This Is What Democracy Looked Like: A Visual History Of The Printed Ballot
Alicia Yin Cheng
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.
Year:
2020
Edition:
1st Edition
Publisher:
Princeton Architectural Press/Chronical Books
Language:
english
Pages:
177
ISBN 10:
161689931X
ISBN 13:
9781616899318
File:
PDF, 194.65 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2020