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Turnout was high in early American elections, as high as 70 percent in places like New Hampshire, North Carolina, and Massachusetts in some years. It was also a time when suffrage was surprisingly generous. Voting wasn't entirely restricted to white, landowning men. In ten of thirteen states, voting was not restricted by race. Women voted in New Jersey until 1807. Not until after the Civil War would the franchise be again this open.
- ↑ Lepore, Jill (10 September 2007). "Party Time: Smear tactics, skulduggery, and the début of American democracy". www.newyorker.com. The New Yorker/Condé Nast. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
[E]lection returns before 1824 do survive: in newspapers, where partisan editors printed them after every election [...] Since Americans voted so often—most [elected officials] served for one-year terms, and in some towns voters went to the polls every other month—thousands of returns can be found in early American newspapers. Until recently, though, the records were too numerous, and too scattered, to be useful to historians. Then, in one of the strangest and most heroic tales in the annals of American historical research, a man named Phil Lampi decided to devote his life to compiling those returns.
