The demonstration ballot listed the names of various historical figures with Chicago or Illinois connections as candidates for various offices.
-- In at least one Chicago polling place this Election Day, youngsters who came with their parents got a sample ballot to learn about the electoral process.
On the ballot, Abraham Lincoln is up against Adlai Stevenson for president; Mayor Harold Washington is taking on Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks in a race for U.S. Senate; and children's rights activist Lucy Flower, attorney and civil rights champion Pearl M. Hart, and Polish American Congress President Aloysius A. Mazewski are all in a contentious race for Illinois governor.
Indeed, going down the historical rabbit hole on the demonstration ballot can be highly tempting – no matter your age.
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