Florida poll workers find Democratic ballots in closet after telling voter primary for GOP only
Theresa Wibert said a poll worker at her Polk County precinct handed her and her husband Republican ballots and told them Democrats could not vote in Tuesday’s primary, reported WFLA-TV.“The boss came over and said we could vote for Republicans only,” she said. “I couldn’t believe it. I told them I wasn’t leaving … It sure wasn’t politically correct.”
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Wibert said poll workers didn’t seem to question why there were no Democratic ballots at their table, so she and a couple other voters pressed them for more information.
“We pushed it a little further and the lady called a few people,” Wibert said. “Finally, she looked in the bottom of a closet and found a box with the Democratic ballots. Then they fixed it, so we were able to vote for our candidate.”
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since the 19th Century is beyond me!
Bingham's depictions of American life in the new, expansive frontier region in the west around the Missouri River are significant to American history and art. His ELECTION SERIES paintings of the mid-1850s, a difficult time in US politics are valuable works of the period. I appreciate Bingham's skilled luminist/realist style and genre subjects more with time.
~ The County Election, 1852
~ Stump Speaking, 1853-54
~ The Verdict of the People, 1854 , Alcohol temperance and anti-slavery
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About 'The County Election', Painting, 1852
The first painting made for the Election Series shows the voting process in Missouri. The County Election depicts a variety of people from several different social classes, such as young boys playing a game, two men talking about the election happening around them, and a mass of men walking up the stairs to vote.[10] A banner shows the words, “The Will of the People[,] The Supreme Law”, a credo that had great meaning for Bingham. He believed that people had a right to share their ideas; he also believed that he lost his seat in legislature in 1846 due to the improper following of the people’s will.[6][clarification needed]
A mill in the background of the painting provided both a local detail and a reference to a Whig candidate who used a mill as a political symbol. The cedar barrels are evocative of a different Whig candidate who used cedar barrels as his political symbol.[11] In his first painting of The County Election, Bingham showed two men flipping a coin beneath a judge. The two people represent ex-governor Marmaduke’s bet that he had placed on the election of Bingham versus his opponent, Erasmus Sappington.
Bingham also purposefully kept the scene outside to represent universal suffrage, one of his beliefs. The openness of the setting shows that politics should happen in the open rather than behind the curtains of the government. The idea of universal suffrage agrees with Bingham’s ideas of the will of the people: everyone should have the right to vote because the will of the people should be the supreme law.[6]
Though many people understood and supported the principles portrayed by Bingham, some believed that Bingham did not correctly portray his beliefs. A critic complained that the painting made a mockery of American principles by including details such as the drunkard voting in the foreground. The critic claimed that because Bingham had shown drinking and gambling as part of the election process, he was defaming the political process. [12]
The reference to Marmaduke in The County Election was only relative to Missouri, so in order to generalize the message of the painting to the nation, Bingham removed the two men tossing a coin in the print version.[6] In the corner of the original painting a newspaper title reads, "The Missouri Republican"; Bingham requested that the man who replicated his painting change the title to "The National Intelligencer" so that the painting would generalize to a larger audience.[10]
MORE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Caleb_Bingham
