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title: U.S. Army PSYOP soldier hands out voter-registration leaflets at a market, Tojsici (Bosnia and Herzegovina, 10 May 1997)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sfor-psyop-voter-registration-leaflets-tojsici-1997/
description: A soldier in woodland camouflage and helmet, with a US flag patch on his sleeve, shakes hands with a man in a red shirt who holds a folded leaflet.
section: Collection
---

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[![U.S. Army PSYOP soldier hands out voter-registration, 1997 US photograph: A soldier in woodland camouflage and helmet](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/sfor-psyop-voter-registration-leaflets-tojsici-1997.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/sfor-psyop-voter-registration-leaflets-tojsici-1997.jpg)

# U.S. Army PSYOP soldier hands out voter-registration leaflets at a market, Tojsici (Bosnia and Herzegovina, 10 May 1997)

A soldier in woodland camouflage and helmet, with a US flag patch on his sleeve, shakes hands with a man in a red shirt who holds a folded leaflet, while a woman and a second man look at the sheets in their hands; market stalls and parked cars are behind them. The tell is the face-to-face handout, an armed peacekeeper working the crowd on foot among shoppers to deliver an official message in person.

## Propaganda techniques used in this photograph

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

## Full record

Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Event, Source, Rights

## Text on the object

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

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

```
[...]gen - weniger fahren
```

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

```
Incidental background text on a vehicle at the left, cut off: 'drive less' preceded by a partial word. A second fragment, 'CHAN', is on a man's shirt. (Literal translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader.)
```

The leaflets in hand are not legible; only these incidental fragments are visible and they are not part of the message.

[← Flag of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, white with the shahada (Afghanistan, 1997)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/afghanistan-taliban-flag-islamic-emirate-1997/) ["Is it really his to gamble?" Serbian-language leaflet 04-B-02-L002, Operation Allied Force →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kosovo-allied-force-milosevic-gamble-leaflet-1999/)

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