Sara and Jean discuss personal experiences re: voting and some of the stories they are privy to. In the second half they delve deeper into their ancestors' experiences and ways to research voting in family history. Resources:

Voting in 1960shttps://www.history.com/news/voting-elections-ballots-electronic

https://rediscovering-black-history.blogs.archives.gov/2016/10/25/voting-rights-in-the-early-1960s-registering-who-they-wanted-to/

26th amendment, first voting in national: 1972https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-sixth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution#:~:text=The%20Twenty%2Dsixth%20Amendment%20(Amendment,at%20least%20eighteen%20years%20old.

Voting in colonial timeshttps://www.crf-usa.org/bill-of-rights-in-action/bria-8-1-b-who-voted-in-early-america

Vote buyinghttp://sociallogic.iath.virginia.edu/node/192

Voting exclusion

https://www.history.com/news/voter-registration-elections-president-midterms

Voting timeline

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1800_United_States_presidential_election

Poe complete storyhttps://www.washingtonexaminer.com/death-by-voter-fraud

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooping#:~:text=Cooping%20was%20a%20form%20of,particular%20candidate%20in%20an%20election.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/election-fraud-in-the-1800s-involved-kidnapping-and-forced-drinking

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/glass-ballot-box-was-answer-voter-fraud-19th-century-180976171/

https://www.historynet.com/the-roots-of-voter-fraud-in-america.htm

History of votinghttps://americanhistory.si.edu/vote/reform.html

Compare now to thenhttps://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/01/the-200-year-history-of-using-voter-fraud-fears-to-block-access-to-the-ballot/