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On this Election Day, we're looking at This Is What Democracy Looked Like: A Visual History of the Printed Ballot by Alicia Yin Cheng.
The book is an illustrated history of printed ballot design, featuring US ballots from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These slips of paper, which Cheng calls "the most fugitive ephemera", reflect the attitudes and atmosphere around the political elections of the time, with designs that ranged from ostentatious and colorful public displays to overtly anti-immigrant and anti-Black illustrations.