An answer to the assault on voting rights—crucial reading in light of the 2024 presidential election
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is considered one of the most effective pieces of legislation the United States has ever passed. It enfranchised hundreds of thousands of voters, particularly in the American South, and drew attention to the problem of voter suppression. Yet in recent years there has been a continuous assault on access

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A book to challenge the status quo, spark a debate, and get people talking about the issues and questions we face as a country!

Imagine a country where the right to vote is not guaranteed by the Constitution, where the candidate with the most votes loses, and where paperwork requirements and bureaucratic bungling disenfranchise millions. You're living in it. If the consequences weren't so serious, it would be funny. An eye-opening, fact-filled companion to the forthcoming PBS documentary starring political satirist and commentator Mo Rocca, Electoral Dysfunction illuminates...

Has Trump already stolen the 2020 election? Vote theft was once considered to be a marginal issue that no one wanted to talk about, but as the stakes have risen and the facts have become known, in large part thanks to this author, it is now recognized as one of the central issues deciding our presidential elections. The scope is staggering. In the Georgia 2018 midterm election alone-the testing ground, Republican voting officials quietly removed half...

La obra que ahora se presenta analiza las experiencias vividas durante el proceso electoral 2017-2018, abordando temáticas sobre eventos sucedidos, un tanto predecibles y otro tanto impensables, como la participación de los ciudadanos para acudir a votar, para expresar sus opiniones respecto del desarrollo de las campañas y su activismo dentro del proceso, quienes hicieron que estas elecciones se convirtieran en un parteaguas nacional; todo desde...

Local politics needs fewer information gatekeepers.If you want to run for office, you should be know what you are getting yourself into, and know what you need to do to win. You might not win...but at the very least, you will be judged by the value of your ideas, rather than your knowledge of the system.This book outlines all the details of how to run for city council in Tempe, Arizona. Some of this may be transferable to other cities, some of it...

Buckeye Battleground is the result of a decade's worth of research at the Bliss Institute on elections in Ohio, with special emphasis on the 2004 and 2008 presidential campaigns, and the 2006 gubernatorial campaign. This book seeks to explain why Ohio is, and has been, at the center of American elections. Using historical analysis, demographic data, and public opinion surveys, the authors demonstrate Ohio's role as the quintessential "battleground"...

The 2012 election will be one of the hardest-fought in U.S. history. It is also likely to be one of the closest, a fact that brings concerns about voter fraud and bureaucratic incompetence in the conduct of elections front and center. If we don't take notice, we could see another debacle like the Bush-Gore Florida recount of 2000 in which courts and lawyers intervened in what should have involved only voters. Who's Counting? will focus attention on...

Who's ready for the oval office? They call it a horse race, and in this election the candidates got out of the gate early. But it's still hard to tell them apart and make a choice. Mark Halperin, veteran reporter and political analyst, sizes up the White House hopefuls with intelligence, insight, and his trademark wit, offering engaging, in-depth examinations of the histories, qualifications, agendas, and personal beliefs of the major candidates-including...

A fun, fact-filled, comprehensive overview of U.S. election history; this book is a compendium of presidential trivia and features more than 1200 multiple choice questions covering every U.S. presidential election from 1789 to the historic 2016 campaign (through August 2016). More than 50 questions of the 1200 are about 2016 including questions about the candidates, the controversies, the historic milestones, and the strategies that each campaign...