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title: Crooked Politicians Are Elected by Honest People Who Don't Vote (English registration notice distributed in the Philippines)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/crooked-politicians-elected-by-honest-people-who-dont-vote-namfrel-1953/
description: A typed notice under the hand-lettered heading 'Crooked politicians are elected by honest people who don't vote!'.
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# Crooked Politicians Are Elected by Honest People Who Don't Vote (English registration notice distributed in the Philippines)

A typed notice under the hand-lettered heading 'Crooked politicians are elected by honest people who don't vote!'. It lists registration days (26 September and 3 October 1953), election day (10 November 1953), how to check a precinct list, whom to apply to if refused, and what to do after moving. The tell is a slogan ('honest people' who stay home elect 'crooked' ones) placed over practical voter instructions.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

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

```
Crooked Politicians Are Elected By Honest People Who Don't Vote !

I.   Have You Already Registered to Vote ?
     If not, remember these dates:
          Registration dates:
          Saturday, September 26, 1953
          Saturday, October 3, 1953
          Time: 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
          ELECTION DAY:
          Tuesday, November 10, 1953
II.  If you have registered and/or voted in 1951:
     Check up in your precinct, at least two weeks before Election Day, whether your name is carried in the registration list.
     If not, require the board of inspectors of your precinct to include your name.
     If the board refuses, apply to the Justice of the Peace of the capital, or the Judge of First Instance of your province, or to the Commission on Elections to have your name included in the registration list. Do this immediately.
III. If you have changed your residence, you have to register in the nearest precinct, after you have applied to your original precinct for the cancellation of your previous registration.
     Always have the voter's affidavit issued to you in 1951 with you. It will come in handy.

Remember--You have to register if you want to VOTE !

NAMFREL
```

[← Let us pray it means peace (And the Free World Joins)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/let-us-pray-it-means-peace-korean-armistice-berryman-1953/) [Nobody Can Stop Us from Exercising Our God-Given Right to Vote (English poster distributed in the Philippines) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/nobody-can-stop-us-from-voting-namfrel-1953/)

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