Election Day special from NPR's Throughline: "How We Vote"
Residents vote at a polling place in the Midtown neighborhood of Milwaukee on Oct. 20, the first day of early voting in Wisconsin.
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From NPR’s Throughline podcast series: “How We Vote.”
Drunken brawls, coercion, and lace curtains. Believe it or not, how regular people vote was not something the founders thought much about, or planned for.
Americans went from casting votes at drunken parties in the town square to private booths behind a drawn curtain.
This program explores the process of voting; how it was originally designed, who it was intended for, moments in our country's history when we reimagined it altogether.
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