When Voting was Fun
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Historian Mark Summers tells 19th Century History Guy Ed Ayers about voting in the days before the secret ballot, when party came before the man, and vote-buying, intimidation and 112% voter turnout were par for the course.
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Excerpted from: Early and Often: Voting in America
