My mother taught me how to vote when I was 5 years old. [View all]
She's gone now but I'll never forget the lessons I learned from a lifetime FDR democrat.
One of those lessons occurred the Tuesday that she took me to the fire station to vote. Voting machines were different in the early '60s. There was a curtain and a wall of small switches next to each candidate. flipping that switch would put a red X aside the name you voted for. I remember my mom reaching up and pulling a big lever that drew the curtain for privacy. The machine was now ready for voting.
My mother pointed out the small switches and explained how they would cast her vote to those candidates. Or I can flip this bigger lever at the top of the row, she said, that put red Xs in the box of every democrat on the board. She pushed the big handle back up to record the vote and open the curtain. "And that's how you vote" she said.
Republicans did away with straight ticket voting by the time I was able to cast my first vote, so I had to do a little more work.
Notice the lever at the top of every row here for each party:
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