Voting Booths for Polk County, Iowa

ID: 187 ~ Source: The Daily Iowa Capitol. ~ Date: August 1, 1892.
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On motion, the bid of the Iowa Voting Booth company to supply 255 voting booths, more or less, at $4.00 per booth, to Polk county, and the three sides to be seven feet high, and the canvass on these three sides to reach to the floor, be accepted as the choice of this board. Yeas—Robinson, Christy, Iseminger and Zickefoose; nay—Nelson.

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This file appears in: How the Secret Ballot Came to Iowa

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