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The Candidate Votes

Date: 11 04 1958
Description: Gaylord Nelson, the Democratic candidate for governor, emerging from the voting booth.
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Map of City's Wards in Madison, Wisconsin : To Guide Voters in Spring

Date: 1961
Description: Shows wards and voting precincts. Published in The Capital times: January 28, 1961.
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Fitchburg Voters Use Voting Machines at New Town Hall

Date: 09 08 1964
Description: Voting machines are used for the first time by Fitchburg voters at the new town hall at 2733 Fitch Hatchery Road.
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1948 Primary Elections

Date: 09 21 1948
Description: Elevated view of a crowd of voters and five curtained voting machines at Ward 10.
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Wisconsin Makes Its Laws

Date: 1947
Description: An assembly clerk withdrawing the record of a vote from the automatic voting machine in the Assembly chamber. Madison, WI.
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New Voting Machine Demonstration

Date: 03 04 1948
Description: Mrs. Nels (Louise) Grimstad, 613 Riverside Drive, is shown receiving instructions on one of Madison's new voting machines from Mrs. Ralph F. (Mildred) Norr...
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Spring Election 1961

Date: 04 04 1961
Description: "We Saw You Performing Civic Duty." A child is peering out from beneath the curtain of a voting booth as his parent votes.
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Robert M. La Follette, Sr., Votes

Date: 1924
Description: View of Robert M. La Follette, Sr., at the voting booth in Maple Bluff, Wisconsin at the conclusion of his independent, third-party Presidential campaign.
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Stan Lesar

Date: 02 27 1956
Description: Stan Lesar, laboratory manager at the American Scientific Laboratories and an immigrant from Yugoslavia, looks forward to voting for the first time in the ...
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League of Women Voters

Date: 02 20 1950
Description: Mrs. Robert J. (Joan) Francis of 833 Miami Pass, member of League of Women Voters, listens to City Clerk A.W. Bareis as he explains how to use a voting mac...
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Spring Election 1961

Date: 04 04 1961
Description: "We Saw You Performing Civic Duty" at the Fire Station. A voter is checking in before voting at the 19th Ward poll. He is at the head of a long line of vot...
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League of Women Voters

Date: 02 20 1950
Description: As part of a League of a Women Voters house to house canvas to encourage voting, Mrs. Horace (Marion) Wilkie (left), chair of the Westmorland Unit, is show...
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How to use Voting Machine

Date: 03 08 1948
Description: Step 5: The voter must leave the pointers down when she completes her choice, or her vote will not be recorded.
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Peace Strikers

Date: 04 12 1935
Description: Group portrait of "one thousand" University of Wisconsin-Madison students, enlisted in the war against war at a peace mass meeting and anti-war strike, vot...
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How to Use Voting Machine

Date: 03 08 1948
Description: First Step: The voter (Mrs. Thelma Hauser) receives her first instructions from the election official (Arvid Johnson) on a small working model. She must o...
Poster

Register Your Discontent. Vote.

Date: 01 1972
Description: Poster encouraging young people to register to vote. Includes a picture of a barefoot man with a guitar and blue jeans (a college student, hippie, musician...
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Town of Fitchburg Voters Get a Look at Old Ballot Box

Date: 09 08 1964
Description: Town of Fitchburg voters vote at the new $40,000 town hall, 2733 S. Fitch Hatchery Road, for the first time using voting machines. Voters also received a l...
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Wisconsin State Legislature Session Begins

Date: 01 12 1955
Description: The newly elected Assembly speaker, Mark Catlin, Jr. (right), signing the official vote register as Robert H. Boyson (left), voting machine operator, is lo...
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Girl Scouts Distribute Election Literature

Date: 10 25 1958
Description: Four Girl Scouts hand out voting literature prepared by the League of Women Voters at the Red Owl store on University Avenue. Dorothy Kittleson takes a pam...
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Spring Election in Madison

Date: 04 02 1962
Description: Madison residents turn out to vote during the 1962 spring elections.

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