---
title: By Voting! (Help Build Your Country Too)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/by-voting-help-build-your-country-1951/
description: A Philippine voter-registration poster showing a bricklaying labourer above a hand dropping a ballot.
section: Collection
---

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# By Voting! (Help Build Your Country Too)

A Philippine voter-registration poster showing a bricklaying labourer above a hand dropping a ballot. 'The laborer is a builder' casts an ordinary working man as the model citizen, and 'help build your country' attaches a large virtue word to the act of voting. The sheet is practical as well as rhetorical: it prints the registration dates and polling day.

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
REGISTER SEPT. 28-29
OCT. 5-6-12-13

THE LABORER IS A BUILDER

HELP BUILD YOUR
COUNTRY TOO...

BALLOT BOX

BY VOTING !

VOTE NOV. 13

Published by the National Movement for Free Elections and League of Women Voters
```

Imprint printed in small type at lower right.

[← As Ye Sow, So Shall Ye Reap! Register and Vote!](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/as-ye-sow-register-and-vote-1951/) [Not to Be Associated With..! (Thai poster, yoke and nose-rope caricature) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/by-the-nose-thai-1952/)

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