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In The early 1800’s, the political process took drastic changes. Before, it was only “the wealthy and aristocratic white males who had say in the election of our president” (D boals) but that soon changed. In this essay, I will address three major issues. T ....

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.... this statement, still had one third of the white male population, or around 80,000 people still not allowed to vote. (Textbook.) It was not really until the early 1850’s when the voting bracket was truly changed to include nearly the entire white male American population. The voting process from the beginning of this country was a horrible thing. It started off with people saying in front of their peers which candidate they were voting for. This made peer pressure a great influence in the voting process. “Vote for the wrong person, get beaten” (that was you, Wood.) Most states changed over to a written ballot where the voter had to write the na ....