English
Electoral law and posters of legal texts are, along with the ballot box and voting booths, among the now-familiar objects of polling places. This article uses a socio-historical perspective to question the public display of electoral law, how it is made public in the room where voting takes place, and the political uses of these “legal objects.” Rather than taking an internal approach to these documents, this article situates them among the panoply of voting devices to shed new light on the practices and act of voting.
