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title: The Woman Who Votes Has Outdone the Man Who Didn't! (English poster distributed in Asia)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/the-woman-who-votes-english-1951/
description: A woman in a dress with butterfly-style sleeves drops a slip marked 'VOTE' into a padlocked 'BALLOT BOX' while a man in a straw hat sleeps under a tree.
section: Collection
---

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[![The Woman Who Votes Has Outdone the Man Who Didn't!, 1951 US poster: A woman in a dress with butterfly-style sleeves drops](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/the-woman-who-votes-english-1951.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/the-woman-who-votes-english-1951.jpg)

# The Woman Who Votes Has Outdone the Man Who Didn't! (English poster distributed in Asia)

A woman in a dress with butterfly-style sleeves drops a slip marked 'VOTE' into a padlocked 'BALLOT BOX' while a man in a straw hat sleeps under a tree, with 'ZZZZ' above him. The headline says the woman who votes has outdone the man who did not. The poster urges citizens to vote and mocks non-voters. The tell is bandwagon and plain-folks: ordinary people are shown voting and the idler is made the contrast.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
VOTE
BALLOT
BOX

Published by the National Movement for Free Elections and League of Women Voters

The WOMAN who votes
has outdone the MAN
who didn't !
```

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