Vote for US
eBook - ePub

Vote for US

How to Take Back Our Elections and Change the Future of Voting

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Vote for US

How to Take Back Our Elections and Change the Future of Voting

About this book

An expert on US election law presents an encouraging assessment of current efforts to make our voting system more accessible, reliable, and effective. In contrast to the anxiety surrounding our voting system, with stories about voter suppression and manipulation, there are actually quite a few positive initiatives toward voting rights reform. Professor Joshua A. Douglas, an expert on our electoral system, examines these encouraging developments in this inspiring book about how regular Americans are working to take back their democracy, one community at a time. Told through the narratives of those working on positive voting rights reforms, Douglas includes chapters on expanding voter eligibility, easing voter registration rules, making voting more convenient, enhancing accessibility at the polls, providing voters with more choices, finding ways to comply with voter ID rules, giving redistricting back to the voters, pushing back on big money through local and state efforts, using journalism to make the system more accountable, and improving civics education. At the end, the book includes an appendix that lists organizations all over the country working on these efforts. Unusually accessible for a lay audience and thoroughly researched, this book gives anyone fed up with our current political environment the ideas and tools necessary to effect change in their own communities.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication Page
  5. CONTENTS
  6. Prologue
  7. Chapter 1: The Tale of a Sixteen-Year-Old Voter
  8. Chapter 2: Second Chances
  9. Chapter 3: What Do Taco Trucks Have to Do with Voter Registration?
  10. Chapter 4: How Voting Can Be as Easy as Food Shopping
  11. Chapter 5: All for One and One for All: Voting Machine Edition
  12. Chapter 6: This Former Miss Wisconsin May Save Your Vote
  13. Chapter 7: Forget about the Lesser of Two Evils
  14. Chapter 8: Overthrowing the Government…Peacefully
  15. Chapter 9: The Secret Sauce of Democracy
  16. Chapter 10: Class Is in Session
  17. Chapter 11: How to Combat “Fake News”
  18. Chapter 12: The Perils of Only Playing Defense
  19. Epilogue
  20. Acknowledgments
  21. Appendix: Organizations Working on Voting Rights, Election Reform, and Civic Engagement
  22. Notes
  23. Index