Whose Votes Count?
Author | : Abigail M. Thernstrom |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674951952 |
"A Twentieth Century Fund study."Includes indexes. Bibliography: p. [257]-302.
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Author | : Abigail M. Thernstrom |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674951952 |
"A Twentieth Century Fund study."Includes indexes. Bibliography: p. [257]-302.
Author | : Douglas Jones |
Publisher | : Center for the Study of Language and Information Publica Tion |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Elections |
ISBN | : 9781575866369 |
For many of us, the presidential election of 2000 was a wake-up call. The controversy following the vote count led to demands for election reform. But the new voting systems that were subsequently introduced to the market have serious security flaws, and many are confusing and difficult to use. Moreover, legislation has not kept up with the constantly evolving voting technology, leaving little to no legal recourse when votes are improperly counted. How did we come to acquire the complex technology we now depend on to count votes? Douglas Jones and Barbara Simons probe this question, along with public policy and regulatory issues raised by our voting technologies. Broken Ballots is a thorough and incisive analysis of the current voting climate that approaches American elections from technological, legal, and historical perspectives. The authors examine the ways in which Americans vote today, gauging how inaccurate, unreliable, and insecure our voting systems are. An important book for election administrators, political scientists, and students of government and technology policy, Broken Ballots is also a vital tool for any voting American.
Author | : Gary W. Cox |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 1997-03-28 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780521585279 |
Popular elections are at the heart of representative democracy. Thus, understanding the laws and practices that govern such elections is essential to understanding modern democracy. In this book, Cox views electoral laws as posing a variety of coordination problems that political forces must solve. Coordination problems - and with them the necessity of negotiating withdrawals, strategic voting, and other species of strategic coordination - arise in all electoral systems. This book employs a unified game-theoretic model to study strategic coordination worldwide and that relies primarily on constituency-level rather than national aggregate data in testing theoretical propositions about the effects of electoral laws. This book also considers not just what happens when political forces succeed in solving the coordination problems inherent in the electoral system they face but also what happens when they fail.
Author | : Frank R. Parker |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2011-03-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0807869694 |
Most Americans see the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as the culmination of the civil rights movement. When the law was enacted, black voter registration in Mississippi soared. Few black candidates won office, however. In this book, Frank Parker describes black Mississippians' battle for meaningful voting rights, bringing the story up to 1986, when Mike Espy was elected as Mississippi's first black member of Congress in this century. To nullify the impact of the black vote, white Mississippi devised a political "massive resistance" strategy, adopting such disenfranchising devices as at-large elections, racial gerrymandering, making elective offices appointive, and revising the qualifications for candidates for public office. As legal challenges to these mechanisms mounted, Mississippi once again became the testing ground for deciding whether the promises of the Fifteenth Amendment would be fulfilled, and Parker describes the court battles that ensued until black voters obtained relief.
Author | : Sharon E. Jarvis |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2019-06-27 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0271082887 |
For decades, journalists have called the winners of U.S. presidential elections—often in error—well before the closing of the polls. In Votes That Count and Voters Who Don’t, Sharon E. Jarvis and Soo-Hye Han investigate what motivates journalists to call elections before the votes have been tallied and, more importantly, what this and similar practices signal to the electorate about the value of voter participation. Jarvis and Han track how journalists have told the story of electoral participation during the last eighteen presidential elections, revealing how the portrayal of voters in the popular press has evolved over the last half century from that of mobilized partisan actors vital to electoral outcomes to that of pawns of political elites and captives of a flawed electoral system. The authors engage with experiments and focus groups to reveal the effects that these portrayals have on voters and share their findings in interviews with prominent journalists. Votes That Count and Voters Who Don’t not only explores the failings of the media but also shows how the story of electoral participation might be told in ways that support both democratic and journalistic values. At a time when professional strategists are pressuring journalists to provide favorable coverage for their causes and candidates, this book invites academics, organizations, the press, and citizens alike to advocate for the voter’s place in the news.
Author | : John H. Fund |
Publisher | : Encounter Books |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1594036187 |
Argues that voter fraud is an actual problem and that the United States needs more anti-voter fraud legislation to increase public confidence in the election process.
Author | : Brad Raffensperger |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 121 |
Release | : 2021-11-02 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1637630336 |
Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger recounts his defense of the results of the 2020 presidential election in his state and the surrounding events, as well as discussion of events following the 2018 race for governor of Georgia.
Author | : United States. Congress |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1324 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Louise I. Gerdes |
Publisher | : Greenhaven Publishing LLC |
Total Pages | : 113 |
Release | : 2014-05-20 |
Genre | : Young Adult Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0737768649 |
The passage of Citizens United by the Supreme Court in 2010 sparked a renewed debate about campaign spending by large political action committees, or Super PACs. Its ruling said that it is okay for corporations and labor unions to spend as much as they want in advertising and other methods to convince people to vote for or against a candidate. This book provides a wide range of opinions on the issue. Includes primary and secondary sources from a variety of perspectives; eyewitnesses, scientific journals, government officials, and many others.
Author | : Navin Chawla |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 2019-01-25 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9353026016 |
Navin Chawla has had a ringside view of Indian elections: as Chief Election Commissioner, he supervised the landmark 2009 general election, and several key state elections as well. Drawing on his wide-ranging experience, Every Vote Counts presents a riveting account of how the daunting task of conducting the largest electoral exercise in the world is undertaken. The challenges before the Election Commission are many: How does one conduct free and fair elections when a large percentage of our lawmakers are law-breakers? Is the model code of conduct effective? How does one hold elections in Maoist-affected constituencies, or for that matter in the strife-torn state of Jammu and Kashmir? How reliable are electronic voting machines? Is it possible to implement compulsory voting? Will simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha and state assemblies make things any easier? Every Vote Counts is a fascinating, informative account that gives us a kaleidoscopic view of how the electoral machinery works in the world's largest democracy. With the 2019 elections just round the corner, this is a book that every concerned and interested Indian might want to read.