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How Americans Came to Vote in Secret

How Americans Came to Vote in Secret

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Picture an American election in the mid-nineteenth century: no booth, no curtain, often a party-printed ballot handed over in full view of a watching crowd. The private ballot is not a founding feature; it is a reform, and it arrived later than most people assume. How the secret ballot was won, and what its privacy actually protects.

Field Notes on the Republic was written and read by Michael Fowler. It was produced for Quorum (Supply Co.), an American civic purveyor. Music is "When Johnny Comes Marching Home," performed by the U.S. Military Academy Band, West Point.

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