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Boozing, Bribing and Brawling on Election Day
Reid All About it
NOVEMBER 7, 2016
Since market day was Wednesday in most towns, that day didn’t work. To reduce voter fraud, cities and states started to adopt the secret ballot, beginning with Louisville, Kentucky in 1888. City political machines (organizations), such as Tammany Hall in New York City, didn’t stop at bribery. Why Tuesday? Now, not so much.
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