I assume you've heard of Vicent's book Pollbooks: How
Victorian Voted.
Also Michael Drake of the Open University has written work
on voting behaviour
David
On Thu, 9 Dec 1999 18:09:30 -0000 Barry Fletcher
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> Anyone know how people voted in local elections after the 1835 Municipal rRform Act and before the introduction of the ballot?
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> There are many references in newspapers of the time to'lists'. printed lists in papers, stories of people having one list snatched from their hand and another substituted as they went to vote and references to lists being signed.
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> Did voters have to hand in a written or printed list rather than say who they were voting for? Who could sign them? A JP?
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> Any references for this?
>
> Barry Fletcher
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