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This is What Democracy Looked Like

A Visual History of the Printed Ballot


  • Princeton Architectural Press
  • by 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.

ISBN 9781616898878 | E | HB
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Publisher Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 9781616898878
Author(s) Alicia Yin Cheng
Publication date May 2020
Edition Hardback
Dimensions 260 x 171 mm
Illustrations 200 col.ill.
Pages 176
Language(s) Eng. ed.
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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.