The voting booth is the front line of democracy; it is the place where the hopes, dreams and fears of the people are summarized and acted upon in one seemingly simple act: casting a vote. Popular sovereignty is operationalized in a democracy when a citizen's vote is cast. In the United States the major procedural reforms related to this crucial act of citizenship took place in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when the state assumed the administration of elections. This assured that the secret ballot would be the
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