Instructional Voting Machine, 1944
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Object Details
- described
- Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
- Truman, Harry S.
- Dewey, Thomas E.
- Description
- This facsimile gear-and-lever voting machine was last used in the 1944 presidential election between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Thomas E. Dewey. Small models like this acquainted voters with the workings of the actual machine; the row-and-column ballot of parties and candidates was based upon the graphic design of the blanket or Australian ballot these machines began to displace after the turn of the 20th century. From 1900 through the early 1960s, the gear-and-lever voting machine was promoted as an ideal technology.
- 1943
- ID Number
- 2001.0244.01
- accession number
- 2001.0244
- catalog number
- 2001.0244.01
- Object Name
- Voting Machine
- Physical Description
- red, olive green (overall color)
- Measurements
- overall: 15 in x 14 in x 1 1/2 in; 38.1 cm x 35.56 cm x 3.81 cm
- place made
- United States: Washington
- See more items in
- Political and Military History: Political History, Campaign Collection
- Government, Politics, and Reform
- American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith
- Exhibition
- American Democracy
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- National Museum of American History
- general subject association
- Elections
- used
- Voting
- related event
- Presidential Campaign of 1944
- Record ID
- nmah_882061
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a7-0d83-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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