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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Andrew Gumbel |
| ISBN: | 1560256761 9781560256762 |
| OCLC Number: | 61190645 |
| Description: | xxi, 362 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Contents: | How to steal an election -- The antidemocratic tradition and the new right -- pt. 1. Voting in the age before mechanization -- Slavery and the system -- Patronage, liquor, and graft: the ascent of machine politics -- The theft of the century -- The 1896 watershed and the paradox of reform -- The long agony of the disenfranchised South -- Chicago: the other kind of mob rule -- pt. 2. Voting in the machine age -- Levers, punch cards, and the fallacy of the technological fix -- Democracy's frangible connections: Florida 2000 -- The miracle solution -- Backlash -- Round on the ends and high in the middle: Election 2004 -- Democracy here and there -- The democratic future. |
| Other Titles: | Dirty elections and the rotten history of democracy in America |
| Responsibility: | Andrew Gumbel. |
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Abstract:
The 2000 presidential election meltdown and the more recent controversy about computer voting machines did not come out of the blue. Steal This Vote tells the fraught but very colorful history of electoral malfeasance in the United States. It is a tale of votes bought, stolen, suppressed, lost, cast more than once, assigned to dead people and pets, miscounted, thrown into rivers, and litigated all the way to the Supreme Court. (No wonder America has the lowest voter participation rate of any Western democracy!).
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