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Closeup of political bomb from “All Ready!” cartoon by Clifford Berryman, 11/6/1906.  NARA ID 6010663.

CARTOON BREAK!

We interrupt your “doomscrolling” for a cartoon break!  Political cartoons, of course. From the Clifford K. Berryman Cartoon Collection.

 “All Ready!” cartoon by Clifford Berryman, 11/6/1906, shows fearful candidates and party animals (behind door) as they hide and wait for the election bomb to explode. NARA ID 6010663.

“Figgerin' on the Returns” cartoon by Clifford Berryman, 11/7/1907,  William Jennings Bryan, William Randolph Hearst, and President Teddy Roosevelt examine 1907 election returns.  NARA ID 693465.

“G.O.P. Bulletin” cartoon by Clifford Berryman, 10/18/1912, shows the Democratic donkey and the Bull Moose laughing at William Howard Taft's campaign manager’s prediction re: the electoral vote for the 1912 Presidential Election. NARA ID 6010976.

Ohio Senator Robert A. Taft, son of former President Taft, examines US electoral map with hopes of becoming the next President. NARA ID 1693481.

The Clifford K. Berryman Political Cartoon Collection includes 2,400 original cartoons by Clifford K. Berryman from the U.S. Senate Collection, housed at the our Center for Legislative Archives. Berryman was DC’s best known and most-admired political cartoonist in the first half of the 20th century. 

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[politicalmurder]

There's a whole lotta voting going on

There’s a whole lotta voting going on

An Illinois voter inserts his absentee ballot envelope into a locked ballot drop-off box. Boxes are emptied every night to keep absentee ballots secure. On this particular day of early voting, the container was completely filled by noon.

Have you voted yet? If you have, you’re like nearly 46 million other Americans. And there’s still more than a week until Election Day.

All signs are that the…

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[mesespieces]

Story Time

I just came back from voting,right. Tell me why, I was asked why I was there. Everyone thought I was waiting for my parent to get done voting.You should have seen their faces when I said I was there to vote. They were like how old are you ? Is this your first time voting? You look no older than 16-17. Now, for those who don’t know me on this site personally, I’m 22 years old and I have a baby face.The look of innocence as some have put it. The look I got from people today at the polls is the same look bartenders give me at the bar. Its that “Is she old enough to be here?” look. I’m quite use to it.I find it hilarious. Their reactions are always the same as well. Today for example...when i told them I was 22 they were like “My word! You definitely don’t look it! But anyways... I voted and I hope you did too.

[nintendoentertainmentnetwork]

Everyone in Massachussets: you had better be voting tuesday.

[stupittmoran]

New Year's Resolution that will help us all

You want a New Year's Resolution?  I got one for you, one that will help us all. STOP VOTING FOR LAWYERS!  That's it short and sweet.

[jjay]

Anyway. 

Disability + voting: Election judge #3 told me repeatedly told me I'd have to pull around and use the special [unplugged] voting machine. Judges 2, 4, and 5 all chimed in with their version of "I don't know how to work that thing, do you?" And so on- Til I tell them I'm fine with a normal ballot and can fill out bubbles. Course, there's no accessible height booth either, so again I'm voting alongside some coffee cakes.

There was something in judge 3's demeanor and intonation that put me off of chiming in right away and asking for the normal form... more of an assuming "oh boy, here we go" instead of trying to be helpful about the situation.

The fact that I live in a place where I'm the opposite of the local political leanings may have had something to do with the uneasiness too, but whatever, happens every voting day.