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1 Jill Lepore Rock, Paper, Scissors, October 13, A history of the ballot. Albright, Spencer D. The American Ballot. Washington, Ballot Analysis and Ballot Changes Since Chicago: Council of State Governments, Allen, Philip Loring. Ballot Laws and Their Workings, Political Science Quarterly 21 (March 1906): Baldwin, Simeon E. The Early History of the Ballot in Connecticut, Papers of the AHA 4 (1890): Bass, Herbert J. I am a Democrat : The Political Career of David Bennett Hill. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, Beard, Charles A. The Ballot s Burden. Political Science Quarterly 24 (1909): Bensel, Richard. The American Ballot Box in the Mid-Nineteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, The American Ballot Box: Law, Identity, and the Polling Place in the Mid- Nineteenth Century. Studies in American Political Development 17 (2003): Bernheim, A.C. The Ballot in New York. Political Science Quarterly 4 (1889). Bertrand, Romain, Jean-Louis Briquet and Peter Pels, Towards a Historical Ethnography of Voting, in Berrand et al., eds, Cultures of Voting: The Hidden History of the Secret Ballot. London: Hurst & Co., Binney, Charles Chauncey. Merits and Defects of the Pennsylvania Ballot Law of Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 2 (1892): Bishop, Joseph B. Genuine and Bogus Ballot Reform. The Nation 52 (1891).. Successful Ballot Laws, The Nation 49 (1889). Brunet, Michael. The Secret Ballot Issue in Massachusetts Politics from 1851 to 1853, New England Quarterly 25 (September 1952): Campbell, Douglas. The Origin of American Institutions, as Illustrated in the History of the Written Ballot, Papers of the American Historical Association IV (1891):

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