| Description |
viii, 298 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
"Allegations that Widespread Voter Fraud is threatening to the integrity of American elections and American democracy itself have intensified since the disputed 2000 presidential election. The claim that elections are being stolen by illegal immigrants and unscrupulous voter registration activists and vote buyers has been used to persuade the public that voter malfeasance is of greater concern than structural inequities in the ways votes are gathered and tallied, justifying ever tighter restrictions on access to the polls. Yet, that claim is a myth." |
| Contents |
Introduction : voter fraud and the dynamics of electoral mobilization -- What is voter fraud? -- Are U.S. elections vulnerable to voter fraud? -- Evidence from the states -- Would the rational voter commit fraud? -- The political work of fraud allegations -- Voter fraud allegations and their consequences. |
| Summary |
"This is the first systematic---and convincing---answer to the decade-long campaign by Republican ideologues, the Wall Street Journal, and, for a time, the U.S. Department of Justice to create what Lorraine C. Minnite rightly calls 'the myth of voter fraud.' This myth feeds the ongoing partisan efforts in states throughout the country to adopt voter identification laws, which have the effect of disproportionately disenfranchising minorities and the aged. Minnite's gracefully written book, brimming with fascinating stories and trenchant analysis, provides a clear-eyed, factual background for this major public policy debate. If you want to go beyond slogans and fantasies on voter fraud, this is the place to start."---J. Morgan Kausser. author of Colorblind Injustice: Minority Voting Rights and the Undoing of the Second Reconstruction. |
| Subject |
Elections -- Corrupt practices -- United States.
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Political corruption -- United States.
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Voting -- United States.
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United States -- Politics and government.
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| ISBN |
9780801448485 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0801448484 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
3174436 |
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