My Country – Australian Ballots In 1888, Louisville, Kentucky became the first minipicality to use the Australian Ballot. Today, we all use them. But what are they? How did we vote before? Voting in Early America When colonists landed in Jamestown, they decided to form a government. Within days, they elected a council and a …
My Country – White Primaries Although I bypassed writing about the Fifteenth Amendment, today’s entry in An Almanac of Liberty focuses on voting. After the civil war, state political parties, specifically the Democratic Party designed a system to restrict minority voting. At first, they set up statutory requirements. Nixon v. Herndon, 273 U.S. 536 (1927) L.A. …