Oak Hills
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« on: May 17, 2016, 10:55:55 PM » |
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I'm virtually certain that there was no such thing as party registration until the beginning of primaries around 1900. No closed primaries, no reason for the government to keep track of people's party affiliations.
Similarly, there was no such thing as a government-printed ballot until the 1890s, and South Carolina didn't even have them till the early 1950s. The parties would print ballots with all their candidate's names on them to their supporters, or people could write their own ballots.
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