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hedgehog

(36,286 posts)
Fri Aug 31, 2012, 05:49 PM Aug 2012

What's your earliest memory of voting? [View all]

I can recall going with my mother when she voted for Jack Kennedy back in 1960. The voting booth was a little white shed with a wood burning pot bellied stove for heat. I don't know if the shed was left in place or moved to a storage area, or if it had any other function.

My kids all remember the clanking, chunking voting machines. One thought that those were the engines of Democracy!

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