Nate is an East Bay community papers editor for the East Bay Times and Bay Area News Group.
This ad supporting Republican President Calvin Coolidge for president ran in the Berkeley Daily Gazette during November 1924’s election week. Berkeley voters supported Coolidge, who won, by more than two to one.
At one precinct voters said they were told they could mark their ballots in pencil, then apparently 18 ballots were thrown out during the counting because they were written in pencil, not ink. Initially, partial returns were accidentally combined with full returns in the tallies, so parts of the calculations had to be done over again and reposted. Three days later — on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 1924 — Berkeley voters again went to the polls for state and national elections.
The national presidential electoral map went blood-red from California to New England, with the only exceptions being 136 electoral votes for the Democrat, Davis, in the Solid South, from Texas to Virginia. La Follette won his home state of Wisconsin.
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