Lá phiếu là viên đạn đồng (The Ballot Is a Bronze Bullet), National Assembly election flyer, 30 August 1959
Colour flyer in which the digits 3, 0 and 8 (30 August) are drawn as the mouths of three large gun barrels, firing rolled ballots at a shattering red shape bearing a yellow star. The slogan reads 'The ballot is a bronze bullet, scatter the Viet Cong, set the people's mind at rest', over 'National Assembly election' and '1959'. The tell: voting is fused with military ammunition (transfer), and the opponent is named only by the issuer's label 'Viet Cong' (name-calling).
- Date
- 1959
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Government of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam), National Assembly election flyer; no printer named
- Region
- Southeast Asia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Diem Government
- Leader
- NGO Dinh Diem
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Elections and party politics, War and the military
- Event
- South Vietnamese National Assembly Election 1959
- Techniques
- TransferName-calling
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (Michigan State University Archives, Wesley R. Fishel Papers UA 17.95, MSU Vietnam Group Archive), retrieved September 29, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (South Vietnamese government work; Commons tags PD-South VietnamGov and PD-1996)
Government of the Republic of Vietnam; Michigan State University Archives, MSU Vietnam Group Archive, via Wikimedia Commons.
Text on the object
[on the rolled ballots and paper slips: LÁ PHIẾU / PHIẾU] LÁ PHIẾU LÀ VIÊN ĐẠN ĐỒNG, BẮN TAN VIỆT CỘNG, YÊN LÒNG NHÂN DÂN. BẦU-CỬ QUỐC-HỘI 1959 [the digits 3, 0 and 8 are drawn as large red digits on the mouths of gun barrels]
[on the rolled ballots and paper slips: BALLOT / BALLOT] THE BALLOT IS A BRONZE BULLET, SCATTER THE VIET CONG, SET THE PEOPLE'S MIND AT REST. NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ELECTION 1959 [the digits 3, 0 and 8 are drawn as large red digits on the mouths of gun barrels]
Read from the 960 px image; the lettering is large and clear. 'Đạn đồng' is literally 'copper' or 'bronze' bullet (brass ammunition). Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader.
