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Every Tuesday on The Cato Weekly Podcast, leading scholars and policy analysts from the Cato Institute delve into the big ideas shaping our world: individual liberty, limited government, free markets, and peace. Whether unpacking current events, debating civil liberties, exploring technological innovation, or tracing the history of classical liberal thought, we promise insightful analysis grounded in rigorous research and Cato’s signature libertarian perspective. <hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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[…] If you go back to the Gilded Age, so-called, the very corrupt period in the late 19th century, tons of it. In fact, for a long time, there wasn't a secret ballot. You showed up and you had to take the ballot of one or the other party, and the bosses were sitting right there. That's intimidating. Right. You didn't have the freedom of the private ballot where it's just you alone in the voting booth. Lots and lots of problems. When you talk about stealing elections by in some way switching or manufacturing votes, That continued with big city political missions down into around the 70s. Maybe a bit of it was going into the 80s. […]
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