Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- ELECTION CASES -- THE PRACTICE OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN DEMOCRACY -- THE PHYSICAL SETTING OF THE POLLING PLACE -- PARTY TICKETS -- MAJOR CONSEQUENCES OF THE TICKET SYSTEM -- ENFORCEMENT OF LEGAL REQUIREMENTS FOR VOTING -- OVERVIEW OF THE BOOK -- 2 Structure and Practice of Elections -- COMMON ASPECTS OF THE AMERICAN POLLING PLACE -- Opening and Closing the Polls -- Selection of Election Officials -- The Ballot Boxes -- Poll Books -- Poll Taxes -- Property Qualifications -- On the Marking of Tickets -- Counting the Tickets -- Viva Voce Voting -- Liquor, Corruption, and Bribery -- Money and Patronage as the Currency of Politics -- Economic Intimidation -- On the Poor Farm -- CONCLUSION -- 3 Social Construction of Identity in Eastern Rural Communities -- RESIDENCY -- Age -- MENTAL COMPETENCY -- Racial Identity -- CONCLUSION -- 4 Ethno-Cultural Stereotypes and Voting in Large Cities -- ETHNICITY -- MULTIPLE VOTING IN URBAN PRECINCTS -- COLONIZATION -- OUT-OF-PRECINCT VOTING -- BALTIMORE ELECTIONS -- CONCLUSION -- 5 Frontier Democracy -- Forts, Troopers, and Men on the Move -- Federal Officials -- Residency on the Frontier -- Establishing a County Seat -- The Territory of Utah -- CONCLUSION -- 6 Loyalty Oaths, Troops, and Elections during the Civil War -- State Militia and Loyalty Oaths -- The Seventh Congressional District of Missouri -- The Sixth Congressional District of Missouri -- The Fifth Congressional District of Missouri -- Kentucky -- Federal Troops in Garrisons -- Voting in the Field -- The Draft -- CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX: NOTES ATTACHED TO THE MILITIA ENROLLMENT IN ST. FRANCOIS TOWNSHIP, ST. FRANCOIS COUNTY, MISSOURI, IN 1862 -- 7 Conclusion -- IMPLICATIONS FOR UNDERSTANDING AMERICAN POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT -- Index.