Elections: The Woman Who Invented the Modern Voting Booth

Subtitle: Voting Booth Idea Came in a Dream

As a native of Crete, Nebraska, I always knew that my hometown had a key role in election administration.  For decades, Douglas Manufacturing Company (founded in Crete) had been the primary – if not the only – manufacturer of metal voting booths in the US.  (I have vague recollections of touring that factory as a school child in the early 1960s.)

Only re…