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Voting in American elections once was a manly art that sometimes required self-defense.
The 85 million citizens expected to go to the polls November 7 will ballot in privacy and on the same day. It wasn’t always so, the National Geographic Society says.
Voice voting was widespread in the American colonies and continued in some states after the Revolution. Men gathered at a polling place and announced their choices aloud to an election judge. A bullying crowd greeted the votes with cheers and jeers.
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