---
title: Elections poster, ballot box and map of Laos (Lao, distributed in Laos)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/elections-ballot-box-map-of-laos-lao-1957/
description: A Lao-language poster in yellow and black. A white map of Laos carries a hand dropping a ballot into a padlocked ballot box.
section: Collection
---

1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/)
2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/)
3. Elections poster, ballot box and map of Laos

[![Elections poster, ballot box and map of Laos, 1957 US poster: A Lao-language poster in yellow and black](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/elections-ballot-box-map-of-laos-lao-1957.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/elections-ballot-box-map-of-laos-lao-1957.jpg)

# Elections poster, ballot box and map of Laos (Lao, distributed in Laos)

A Lao-language poster in yellow and black. A white map of Laos carries a hand dropping a ballot into a padlocked ballot box, with Lao headline text above and a banner below. By NARA's title the subject is elections. It addresses voting in general and names no party or candidate. The tell is glittering generalities: an abstract civic duty and freedom are attached to the national map and the act of voting.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
[Lao script: headline across the top; the words on the map above the ballot hand and on the ballot box; the country name on the map; and a white-on-black banner at the foot. Not reliably legible at the available image resolution]
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
Approximate and unverified: headline about performing your duty; words by the hand and box refer to voting (ballot) and the ballot box; the map reads 'Laos'; the banner appears to say that you bear responsibility for your own freedom.
```

Lao text not transcribed verbatim; no imprint printed.

[← Eleanor Steber concert poster, Series 192 (Chinese-English, Taipei)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/eleanor-steber-concert-chinese-taipei-1957/) [Burma-America Picture News poster, Mar 1957 (Burmese poster distributed in Rangoon) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/burma-america-picture-news-mar-1957-burmese-1957/)

## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques

- [Gypsum alabaster slab inscribed in cuneiform, from Nimrud (Kalhu), reign of Ashurnasirpal II](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/nimrud-slab-ashurnasirpal-ii-inscription-883bce/) (Neo Assyrian Empire · 0000 · Transfer, Glittering generalities)
- [Colour lithograph of the Latin text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti on the wall of the temple of Roma and Augustus at Ancyra, with the heading in large letters (Perrot, Guillaume and Delbet, 1872)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lithograph-res-gestae-ancyra-heading-0014/) (Roman Empire · 0014 · Card stacking, Glittering generalities)
- [Bronze sestertius of Trajan, reverse S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI, S C, the emperor on horseback riding down an enemy](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sestertius-trajan-optimo-principi-0103/) (Roman Empire · 0103 · Testimonial, Glittering generalities)
- [Gold solidus of Constantine I, reverse RESTITVTORI LIBERTATIS](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/solidus-constantine-i-restitutori-libertatis-0313/) (Roman Empire · 0313 · Glittering generalities)
- [Gold solidus of Justinian I, reverse VICTORIA AVGGG with Victory holding a Christogram staff](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/solidus-justinian-i-victoria-avggg-0538/) (Byzantine Empire · 0538 · Transfer, Glittering generalities)
- [The Armada Portrait of Elizabeth I (Royal Museums Greenwich version), oil on panel](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/armada-portrait-elizabeth-i-greenwich-1588/) (England · 1588 · Transfer, Glittering generalities)
- [Medal of Elizabeth I: portrait in a ruff, reverse an ark on stormy waves with SAEVAS TRANQVILLA PER VNDAS (18th-century aftercast of a 1588 model)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/elizabeth-i-ark-medal-aftercast-1588/) (England · 1588 · Transfer, Glittering generalities)
- [Frontispiece to Eikon Basilike, The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in his Solitudes and Sufferings (Hollar, 1649)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/eikon-basilike-frontispiece-hollar-1649/) (Dutch Republic · 1649 · Transfer, Glittering generalities)