The path to compulsory voting

By Aidan Calvelli | September 5, 2024

In the pre-Civil War era, Missouri oil painter George Caleb Bingham did what became a famous series of oil paintings on politics and elections — including “The County Election” seen here. Bingham himself had been a politician, before turning to art. Critics claimed that because Bingham had shown drinking and gambling as part of the election process, he was defaming the political process; he saw it as being honest about Jacksonian democracy. Image courtesy of St Louis Art Museum

The path to compulsory voting

By Aidan Calvelli | September 5, 2024

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