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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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State Republican Party Convention

Date: 06 21 1947
Description: Assembly Speaker, Donald McDowell, casting a straw vote for U.S. President. George Greene, editor of Waupun Leader News, supervising the vote.
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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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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...
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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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League of Women Voters

Date: 02 20 1950
Description: Three members of the League of Women Voters check the voter poll lists to see who has not yet registered to vote. Left to right: Mrs. Arthur P. (Julia) Mil...
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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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Voters' Registration Week

Date: 08 05 1950
Description: Acting Madison City Manager George Forster signs a proclamation designating the week of August 14 as Voters' Registration week. Watching are, left to righ...
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Civics Club Suffragists

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Description: Five Civics Club members pose in a cardboard automobile in front of a painted backdrop as suffragists. They're wearing period costumes and holding "Vote" s...
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Spring Election 1961

Date: 04 04 1961
Description: Long lines of voters gather at Midvale School for the spring 1961 election. Poll workers are sitting at two tables to register the voters.
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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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Spring Election in Madison

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

Date: 11 08 1960
Description: A steady line of voters kept election clerks busy at the Fourth Ward in the City-County Building.
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Voters

Date: 11 08 1960
Description: The long line of voters waiting in the Second Ward's precinct in the Lapham school was similar to those in many other of the city's precincts at about the ...

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