This is What Democracy Looked Like: A Visual History of the Printed Ballot

Cheng, Alicia Yin

ISBN 10: 1616898879 / ISBN 13: 9781616898878

Published by Princeton Architectural Press, 2020

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: This is What Democracy Looked Like: A Visual History of the Printed Ballot
• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1616898879
• ISBN 13: 9781616898878
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very good

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Alicia Yin Cheng is a founding partner of MGMT. design in Brooklyn, New York. She currently serves as an external critic for the MFA program at the Rhode Island School of Design and has taught at Yale University, Maryland Institute College of Art, Barnard College, and Cooper Union. Cheng was a past board member of the AIGA/NY chapter and the Fine Arts Federation.