Don't Sell Your Vote!

A Philippine anti-vote-buying poster. A helmeted rifleman and a ring of portraits stand around the national flag behind a padlocked ballot box, and the headline calls a sold vote a betrayal of 'your heroes'. The tell is transfer: the prestige of soldiers and national figures is attached to casting an uncorrupted ballot.

Date

August 6, 1953

Period

Cold War

Made by

U.S. Information Agency (Asian poster series)

Region

North America

Country

United States

Medium

Poster

Issuer type

State

Regime

Eisenhower Administration

Leader

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Audience

Foreign public

Purpose

Mobilize or secure compliance

Themes

Elections and party politics, War and the military

Techniques

Transfer

Source

Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure

Source

U.S. National Archives (NAID 5729938); image copy via Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 2, 2026

Rights

Public domain (U.S. government work)
U.S. Department of State / U.S. Information Agency. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 5729938). Item page: Use Restriction Unrestricted.

DON'T BETRAY YOUR HEROES--THE MEN
WHO FOUGHT FOR YOUR RIGHT TO VOTE

BOX
for
VALID BALLOTS

DON'T SELL YOUR VOTE !