History Professor Richard Trimble gave participants to his lecture “Contentious Elections in American History” an election experience circa 1868, when the idea of “one man, one vote” was sorely tested. Despite the fact that many folks after the Civil War were interested in politics and there was 80 percent voter turnout (today we are lucky to get half that), not all who lived in the USA were eligible to vote.
The scene in the Little Egg Harbor Friends Meeting House was filled with members of the Tuckerton Historical Society…
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