Photos: Voting through the years

A barefoot hula dancer takes time out from her job as a welcomer for the Hawaii Visitors Bureau to cast her vote in election in Honolulu on Nov. 8, 1960, the first time Hawaii has voted for a president. In the next booth is a conventionally dressed citizen voting. Hula dancers wear their tie leaf skirts about town from job to job. (AP Photo)

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New Yorks presidential electors file forward to cast the states 43 electoral votes for Democrat Hubert H. Humphrey in the Senate Chamber at the State Capitol in Albany, New York on Monday, Dec. 16, 1968. Many of the electors are opposed to the present system for choosing the president. (AP Photo)

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Francis Fabbricatore looks up at lighted panels that display the names and votes of Assemblymen in the Assembly Chamber at the State Capitol in Albany, Monday, Dec. 9, 1968. Fabbricatore, an Assembly document clerk from Ithaca, stands at the Assembly Speakers chair and the control panel for the vote tallying device is in the foreground. (AP Photo)

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Francis Fabbricatore looks at the control board for the electronic vote tallying device in the Assembly Chamber at the State Capitol in Albany, Monday, Dec. 9, 1968. Fabbricatore, an assembly document clerk from Ithaca, is sitting on stool used by the Assembly Speaker. (AP Photo)

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Police remove young demonstrators from Lafayette Square across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House, Washington on Nov. 5, 1968. A National Park police official said more than 100 were arrested. The rally against todays elections was sponsored by the Students for a Democratic Society. (AP Photo/Charles Harrity)

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An elderly couple receives instruction on the new punch card ballot before voting in the Wilton, Maine, fire station on Nov. 5, 1968. (AP Photo)

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N.E.S. (News Election Service) headquarters election at 50 Rockefeller Plaza, New York City election on Nov. 5, 1968. (AP Photo/Harry Harris )

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Overcrowded room with voters waits in lines sometimes for 25 minutes at St. John the Evangelist Parochial School at 1015 First Ave in Manhattan, New York City on Nov. 5, 1968. (AP Photo/OR)

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A scene at the National Tabulation Center of the Network Election Service in New York on Nov. 11, 1964. A line of private telephone lines at State Tabulation Centers. Returns are brought to this national center for distribution to all members of Nes--AP, UPI, ABC, CBS and NBC; presidential state locals are then added for one national presidential total to be used by all major news media. (AP Photo)

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African Americans line up to cast their ballots, Nov. 3, 1964 in a school in the East Harlem section of New York in the borough of Manhattan. (AP Photo)

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Its eight days after the election, but theyre still counting ballots, and when they get through Vice President Nixon may get Californias 32 electoral votes in Los Angeles county on Nov. 16, 1960. The ballots are those cast by absentee voters. About 80,000 were cast and the first tally gave Nixon 3030 to 1563 for Sen. John F. Kennedy. At the moment Kennedys statewide margin is only 12,638 votes, so if the trand continues his lead will be wiped out. (AP Photo/DAB)

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Associated Press staffers use an adding machine to compute election results in New York, Nov. 3, 1936. (AP Photo)

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Bandleader Johnny Grant leads a gathering of Vice President Nixons supporters in song at the Ambassador hotel in Los Angeles on Nov. 8, 1960 as returns from election are posted. The Republican presidential candidate spent the evening in his suite six floors up in the same hotel assessing the returns from around the country. (AP Photo)

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Americans listen to U.S. election returns read by man in background at Harrys New York bar, a favorite rendezvous in Paris on Nov. 8, 1960. (AP Photo)

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Crowd fills the ballroom of a hotel in downtown Washington on Nov. 8, 1960, to watch returns on an election score board at Democratic Party rally. (AP Photo/Tom Fitzsimmons)

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Olga Johnson, light jacket, an election judge, explains sample ballot to Eklutna Indian woman as group of Indians arrive to cast their first presidential election ballots at an Old Russian Orthodox church at Eklutna Village in South-central Alaskas Chugachs Mountains on Nov. 8, 1960. The Indians were given sample ballots to study before Alaska polls opened. The church, where the Indians worship, is more than 100 years old. (AP Photo/EJ)

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Sen. John F. Kennedy as he joined approximately 67,000,000 voters in casting a ballot for President of the United States in Boston, Nov. 8, 1960. The Democratic candidate, a native of Boston, voted at the West End Branch Library, Ward 3, Precint 6, which is equipped with voting machines. (AP Photo)

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President Eisenhower drops his ballot into the ballot box as he votes in the Presidential election on Nov. 8, 1960 at the Harlow Fire Hall outside of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. At right is H. Earl Pitzer, Adams County Republican Chairman. Gettysburg is part of Adams County. (AP Photo)

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Tired girl slouches in a chair at Democratic National headquarters in Washington, D.C., as her boyfriend scans election returns on Nov. 7, 1956 after the walloping Republican victory. (AP Photo/Charles Gorry)

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Gen. Dwight Eisenhower reached the peak of his career by winning the presidential election and troops placed a sign in front of their hill top bunker proclaiming it to be "Ike's Peak" in Korea, Nov. 10, 1952. At the bunker, are, left to right: Cpl. Ronald Carlson, Cpl. James Rusher, Cpl. Everette Pierre, Pfc. Edward Hofrock, and Cpl. Richard Dyer. (AP Photo)

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Things are pretty quiet in the Bowman Room of the Hotel Biltmore in New York on Nov. 11, 1952 where democratic staff workers are gathered to watch scoreboard for results of the election as returns poured into New York City on November 4. There wasnt a sound from the group of about 150 persons when the concessions of defeat were received from N.Y. State Democratic chairman Paul Fitzpatrick and Democratic senatorial candidate John Cashmore. (AP Photo/Marty Zimmerman)

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President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower wears a broad grin at his campaign headquarters in New York on Nov. 4, 1952, as returns indicate a winning trend. The victorious candidate faced cheering supporters after as the Republican vote assumed landslide proportions. (AP Photo)

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Reports on the results of the nation's voting poured into Washington, D.C., Nov. 8, 1938, over Associated Press wire. There, the results from the states were consolidated into one comprehensive report by a staff of writers and tabulators shown working. Stories were constantly updated throughout the night. In background hunched over a writer is Milo Thompson, Washington chief of bureau, who directed the operation. (AP Photo)

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AP Elections Staffers The Washington D.C. bureau of The Associated Press is pictured with staffers on the job on election night, Nov. 3, 1964. (AP Photo)

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This was the jammed floor at the New York Stock Exchange on the morning of Nov. 6, 1968, after the presidential election on Nov. 5. In the first hour, stocks advanced. The Dow Jones Industrial average was up 5.41 points at that time. (AP Photo/OR)

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Part of the vast crowd gathered in Times Square, New York, on Nov. 13, 1928, to watch the returns of the election to decide the new American President. Herbert Hoover was returned with an overwhelming majority. (AP Photo)

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General view of the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, November 5, 1952 as an initial burst of buying enthusiasm following election of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower to the presidency swamps the high speed ticker. The market swept forward for gains that ran to between $4 and $5 a share at the outside. Pace of trading slackened after the first half hour. (AP Photo)

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Associated Press staffers work with special telegraph wires receiving city elections returns in Washington, D.C., on election night, Nov. 8, 1938. (AP Photo/RB)

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Unidentified workers crowd a room in the offices of The Associated Press in New York City on election night, Nov. 3, 1914. (AP Photo)

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Associated Press editors are in a huddle looking over stories on election night, Nov. 8, 1938, in Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/RB)

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The Times Tower, in New York City's Times Square, flashes the word that President Eisenhower has been re-elected, Nov. 7, 1956. Very few person were in the square when the sign flashed the news. The tower is a traditional landmark of the city. (AP Photo/Tom Fitzsimmons)

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Secretary Andrew Mellon is shown casting his vote in Pittsburgh, Pa., on Nov. 6, 1928. (AP Photo)

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Associated Press Washington D.C. chief of bureau, William Beale and members of the AP election coverage staff run punch cards through an IBM accounting machine in a pre-election test of equipment, Nov. 3, 1960. It is one of many pieces of modern equipment to be used in the gigantic task of gathering returns in the Nov. 8 presidential election. From left are: Sterling Green, Beale, William Arbogast, traffic bureau chief Charles Singleton, Ernest Warren and Erskine Bankhead, system representative of the Service Bureau Corp. (AP Photo/Bill Allen)

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Mamie Eisenhower smiles broadly as her favorite candidate, Dwight D. Eisenhower, prepares to vote at polling place near Columbia University in New York City on Nov. 4, 1952. The Republican presidential nominee and his wife arrived in New York from Boston and went to the polling place before returning to their Morningside Heights home. (AP Photo)

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Map shows electoral votes from each of the 50 U.S. states shown Oct. 29, 1964. (AP Photo)

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Activity inside the Washington, D.C. bureau of the Associated Press is pictured on election night, Nov. 8, 1932. (AP Photo)

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Associated Press staff writers work the phones on election night, Nov. 8, 1938, in Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/RB)

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Throughout the night, the men in this key station in the Washington bureau of the Associated Press, tabulated election returns, Nov. 5, 1940, keeping the score on both electoral and popular votes for the nation. The staff handled returns which flooded in over an 85,000-mile wire network. Standing in his shirtsleeves is Brian Bell, left, chief of bureau for Washington, D.C. Seated with back to camera is William L. Beale, Washington news editor. (AP Photo)

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Associated Press staffers in Washington, D.C., Max Hill and Bill Varn, work on elections returns, Nov. 8, 1938. (AP Photo/RB)

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This is a general view of the elections desk in the Washington, D.C. bureau of the Associated Press, shown with staffers working on election night, Nov. 3, 1936. (AP Photo)

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Shown is a person voting the Republican tickets on a voting machine. Up to and including 5A (Mintzer) is exactly the same as Gen. Dwight Eisenhower will vote in his district (7th A.D.) show here on Nov. 3,1952 in New York City. After that names are not the same as will appear on his voting machine. Photo taken aat Eisenhower-Nixon Headquarters, 51st Street, N.Y.C. (AP Photo)

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A crowd outside the Union League Club, a staunch Republican organization in Philadelphia, Pa., jeers as they hear the news that the election went strongly Democratic, Nov. 4, 1936. (AP Photo)

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Col. Edwin A. Halsey, far left, secretary of the Senate, takes electoral ballots out of a box as a clerk , center hands them to Sen. Tom Connally, D-Texas, as a joint session counts electoral votes for the November presidential election at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., Jan. 6, 1941. There wasn't any question about it, but the law requires it and the Senate and House set aside half and hour to count the votes. rep. George Tinkham, R-Mass., with beard checks the ballots with Sen. Warren R. Austin, R-Vt., seated far right. Left on top seat of Rostrum is Vice President John N, Garner. Right, beside him, is Speaker Sam Rayburn. (AP Photo)

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The Dewey-Warren headquarters in the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City presented this almost deserted scene on Nov. 3, 1948 as the nation awoke to find its presidential vote result still in doubt. A handful of die-hards slumped in chairs as the rest of the huge hotel ballroom was empty. Incumbent President Harry Truman defeated Republican Thomas Dewey - the results were considered an upset. Ruuning with Dewey was California Gov. Earl Warren. (AP Photo)

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A scene at the National Tabulation Center of the Network Election Service in New York on Nov. 11, 1964. A line of private telephone lines at State Tabulation Centers. Returns are brought to this national center for distribution to all members of Nes--AP, UPI, ABC, CBS and NBC; presidential state locals are then added for one national presidential total to be used by all major news media. (AP Photo)

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A scene at the National Tabulation Center of the Network Election Service in New York on Nov. 11, 1964. A line of private telephone lines at State Tabulation Centers. Returns are brought to this national center for distribution to all members of Nes--AP, UPI, ABC, CBS and NBC; presidential state locals are then added for one national presidential total to be used by all major news media. (AP Photo)

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In Chicago which was scene of storied long count heavyweight bout between Dempsey and Tunney, another long count is going on this week in Chicago on Nov. 6, 1964. Special steams are working around the clock in three shifts to tabulate results of voting for Illinois state legislature. Woman in center holds up several of the yard-long ballots containing the names of 118 candidates from each party. Completion of tally may require a week. (AP Photo/Charles Knoblock)

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A display on the forthcoming U.S. election is placed in window of Selfridges department store in London on Oct. 31, 1964. In center of the display is a U.S. voting machine which is being promoted in Britain. (AP Photo/Eddie Worth)

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With upraised arms, President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Vice President Richard Nixon salute cheering workers and Republicans at Republican election headquarters in Washington, November 7, 1956, after Adlai Stevenson conceded, with the Republicans winning in a landslide. (AP Photo)

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From the top of their twin forty M19 tank somewhere in Korea, a group of GIs cheers for their candidate, Adlai Stevenson, as U.S. presidential election was in progress. They are, seated left, Pfc Edward Bittle, Pfc Norman Holmes, seated, right, and standing (left to right) Pfc Gene Dew, Pfc James A. Kettner and Cpl. Ralph Cavanillas, who holds a copy of a magazine with Gov. Stevenson's picture on the cover. (AP Photo)

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Three GIs, serving with the U.S. Third Infantry Division, seem pleased with the results of the current election, Nov. 9, 1952. Holding a copy of Time with President-elect Eisenhower on the cover is Sgt. F/C Roy C. Cooper, right. At left is Pfc Anthony V. Cantone, and center is Cpl. Jerome W. Hill. (AP Photo)

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A group of GIs outside their bunker listen to election returns in Korea, Nov. 9, 1952. From left to right are: Pfc Robert Harris, Pfc Steve F. Ramey,, Pfc Kenneth R. Wright, Sgt. F. Eddie Williams, and Pfc Joseph Kelly. (AP Photo)

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Invitation to the new president: Sgt. Edward St. Clair, left, and Sgt. Jamil Farhat, right, tack up a sign over entrance to a bunker saying "We're waiting, Ike", Nov. 6, 1952. (AP Photo)

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Coal diggers at the Montour No. 10 mine of Pittsburgh Consolidation coal Co. at nearby Library, Pennsylvania receives their ballots from Judge of Elections Frances Collins in Pittsburgh on Nov. 4, 1952 before reporting for the 2 P.M. EST night shift. They are from left to right: Steve Shandor, Fred Noakes and Fred Harris. (AP Photo)

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Ohio Secretary of State Ted Brown inspects the adding machine tape of Mrs. Linda Bryant, who is one of many in the office running the final tabulation for the official canvas of the vote in the national election in Columbus, Ohio on Nov. 15, 1968. (AP Photo/Gene Herrick)

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This is a general view of New York's Times Square at 45th St., looking south shortly before midnight, Nov. 2, 1948. The sidewalks are packed with crowds on traditional scene at Times Square on national election night. (AP Photo)

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Actress Jane Russell, takes time out from playing the notorious Belle Starr to nail a voting sign to a sound stage door on a Hollywood movie lot, October 28, 1948. She is using a shooting iron instead of a hammer because it was the easiest thing to find on the Montana Belle set. The sign reads, "Vote as You Please But Please VOTE." (AP Photo)

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American soldiers on leave in London flocked to the Rainbow Corner, American Red Cross Club in Shaftesbury Avenue, to hear the election results given out over a microphone. Flashes from home were announced throughout the early hours but the soldiers stayed on until the result was unquestionable. Maxine Sheppard, 135 east 50th., New York City, writing the result on the bulletin board at the Rainbow Corner in London on Nov. 8, 1944, before some of the many soldiers who stayed up all night. (AP Photo)

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An overhead view - looking north from 42nd Street - of thousands of New Yorkers gathered in Times Square, New York, on Election Day, Nov. 7, 1944. (AP Photo/John Rooney)

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The sidewalks and streets of Times Square were jammed with this crowd of election celebrants in New York City, Nov. 7, 1944 just before 10 p.m. (AP Photo/John Rooney)

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In this photo provided by the U.S. Navy, demonstrating their desire to utilize the great American privilege of voting, Navy men on duty at an advanced base in the Pacific line up outside a building designated as the balloting center for the base, Nov. 6, 1944. Properly qualified officers act as "voting officials." (AP Photo/U.S. Navy)

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In this photo provided by the U.S. Army Signal Corps, voting tents are conspicuously marked at headquarter of the 147th Infantry Regiment in the South Pacific, Oct. 30, 1944. In the tent at the left, the voting officer explains requirements to a soldier, while another doughboy votes in the booth at the right. (AP Photo/Signal Corps)

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New Yorks famous Times Square on Dec. 2, 1940, when the Presidential election results were coming through. Crowds pack the whole square, cheering wildly as the totals for the two candidates mount up and up. (AP Photo)

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the register in the Hyde Park, N.Y., Town Hall, Nov. 5, 1940 where he voted. Emma Crapser, election board chairman, and Thomas Qualters, the president's aide, look on. (AP Photo/George R. Skadding)

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General view of the moving masses which crowded sidewalks and streets of Times Square in New York, on Nov. 3, 1936, as last minute returns on the Roosevelt-Landon race for the White House were flashed in electric lights. Mounted police augmented regular patrolmen on duty to keep traffic lanes open during the all night celebration. (AP Photo)

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A group of American soldiers gather around a radio in the American Red Cross Rainbow Corner to hear the election results in France on Nov. 15, 1944. (AP Photo)

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While not actively engaged in fighting the enemy in Korea, two Marines of the 7th Regiment, 1st Marine Division, Pfc Joseph M. Collins, left, and Sgt. James L. Rushton, Jr., talk over their absentee ballots outside a bunker at battalion headquarters in Korea, Nov. 4, 1952. (AP Photo)

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At SHAPE in Louveciennes, Paris, soldiers of all nationalities wait for the result of the American presidential elections, Nov. 4, 1952. Allied soldiers watch the board where the results are posted every hour. (AP Photo/Jean-Jacques Levy)

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An American casts his ballot in the straw vote run before each U.S. presidential election in the well-known gathering place for Americans in Paris at Harry's New York Bar, Nov. 1, 1952. The vote has been run since 1924 and has been right every time except the last, when it favored Dewey over Truman. At present the vote stands: Eisenhower 183, Stevenson. 175. M/Sgt. Edwin R. Hildreth, with barman Emile Dumont hold the ballot box. (AP Photo/Jean-Jacques Levy)

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U.S. President Harry S. Truman holds up an Election Day edition of the Chicago Daily Tribune, which, based on early results, mistakenly announced "Dewey Defeats Truman" on Nov. 4, 1948. The president told well-wishers at St. Louis' Union Station, "That is one for the books!" (AP Photo/Byron Rollins)

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Hundreds of Dewey-Warren adherents sit in front of a huge blackboard in the grand ballroom of the Roosevelt Hotel, in New York, Nov. 2, 1948, to watch state-by-state returns in the presidential election. On the mezzanine floor above, the National Republican headquarters was a bustling hive of activity. (AP Photo)

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New York Democratic headquarters in the Hotel Biltmore offered a scene of joy as election returns were announced on Nov. 2, 1948. This group of several hundred began staging a minor celebration as the loudspeakers announced President Harry Trumans showing. (AP Photo/Ed Ford)

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Voters of the tiny mountain hamlet of Harts Location, N.H., show how they voted for Governor Thomas E. Dewey 11-1 as they stand outside the voting place on Nov. 2, 1948. Left to right; Mrs. Macomber, town clerk Douglas Macomber; Joseph Burke, Preston King, Mrs. George Morey and George Morey. The town, first in the country to report complete returns, voted at dawn. (AP Photo/Abe Fox)

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Voters in the 18th Congressional District, New York City, East Harlem, line up outside a polling place on Fifth Ave., between 111th and 112th Streets, to cast their vote, Nov. 2, 1948. The district is the scene of a three-way fight for the House of Representatives seat of Rep. Vito Marcantonio of the American Labor Party. He is opposed by John Ellis, Republican-Liberal candidate, and John P. Morrissey, Democratic candidate. (AP Photo/Anthony Camerano)

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A huge television screen, 15x20 feet, hangs over the entrance to the RCA Building in Rockefeller Plaza, New York, Nov. 1, 1948 on the eve of the 1948 presidential election. At left is a canvas covered projector which will beam an election night television program to the screen. (AP Photo/Jacob Harris)

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U.S. citizens wait in line to cast their votes in the general election at the polling place at 678 Madison Ave., New York City, Nov. 3, 1936. (AP Photo)

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American soldiers crowd around a radio equipped jeep in a rain swept street in Paris on Nov. 14, 1944 to hear presidential election returns. The Eiffel Tower is in background. (AP Photo)

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Sen. Harry S. Truman, Democratic vice presidential candidate, and Mrs. Bess Truman cast their vote Independence, Mo., on Nov. 7, 1944. (AP Photo)

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Some of the thousands of persons who packed Times Square in New York, Nov. 5, 1940, in the excitement of the presidential election. Observers believed it was the largest crowd ever to gather in the square. Election results were flashed from the tower of the Times building. Bulletins, as received were also displayed on the electric sign around the building and on a bulletin board at the north end of the building. (AP Photo)

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A half-million happy-go-lucky New Yorkers jam Times Square to watch as election returns are flashed in New York, Nov. 5, 1940. This was the scene around 10:30 p.m. when the crowd was at maximum proportions. (AP Photo)

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt, accompanied by his son, Franklin Jr., casting his vote at the Town Hall, at Hyde Park, in the New York during the presidential elections, on Nov. 3, 1936. (AP Photo)

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With hardly an inch of space to spare, this giant wave of humanity spread over Broadway, in the heart of New York City's Theatrical District on election on Nov. 8, 1932 in New York. It was a happy crowd, shouting, cheering, and tooting their horns as the night grew on and more election returns came in on the presidential race. New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt won the presidential election, Nov. 8, 1932, and he celebrated nearby at the Hotel Biltmore. (AP Photo)

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