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Author : John Samples
Release : 2004
Genre : Elections
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Book Synopsis Three Myths about Voter Turnout in the United States by : John Samples
Download or read book Three Myths about Voter Turnout in the United States written by John Samples. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lorraine C. Minnite
Release : 2011-03-15
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis The Myth of Voter Fraud by : Lorraine C. Minnite
Download or read book The Myth of Voter Fraud written by Lorraine C. Minnite. This book was released on 2011-03-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. In The Myth of Voter Fraud, Lorraine C. Minnite presents the results of her meticulous search for evidence of voter fraud. She concludes that while voting irregularities produced by the fragmented and complex nature of the electoral process in the United States are common, incidents of deliberate voter fraud are actually quite rare. Based on painstaking research aggregating and sifting through data from a variety of sources, including public records requests to all fifty state governments and the U.S. Justice Department, Minnite contends that voter fraud is in reality a politically constructed myth intended to further complicate the voting process and reduce voter turnout. She refutes several high-profile charges of alleged voter fraud, such as the assertion that eight of the 9/11 hijackers were registered to vote, and makes the question of voter fraud more precise by distinguishing fraud from the manifold ways in which electoral democracy can be distorted. Effectively disentangling misunderstandings and deliberate distortions from reality, The Myth of Voter Fraud provides rigorous empirical evidence for those fighting to make the electoral process more efficient, more equitable, and more democratic.
Author : Jody C. Baumgartner
Release : 2008
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 384/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Conventional Wisdom and American Elections by : Jody C. Baumgartner
Download or read book Conventional Wisdom and American Elections written by Jody C. Baumgartner. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of illustrations --Preface --pt. 1. Voters --1. Thebig year for the youth vote : myth and reality --2. The"America divided" myth : red states, blue states, and other gaps --3. Themyth of the vanishing voters and the rise of the independent voter --pt. 2. Following campaigns --4. Misconceptions about the e-campaign : what the Internet can and cannot do for political campaigns --5. Myth or reality? : presidential campaigns have become nastier --6. Science or voodoo? : misconceptions about national election polls --7."It's the ratings, stupid" : misconceptions about media bias --8. A"dime's worth of difference?" : political parties and the myth of Tweedledum and Tweedledee --pt. 3. Understanding election outcomes --9. Selling of the president : the "image is everything" myth --10. Themisconception of competitive congressional elections --11. Presidential campaigns and "kingmaker" states : the myth of a national contest --Notes --Index --About the authors.
Author : Daron R. Shaw
Release : 2020
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis The Turnout Myth by : Daron R. Shaw
Download or read book The Turnout Myth written by Daron R. Shaw. This book was released on 2020. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When voter turnout is high, Democrats have an advantage - or so the truism goes. But, it is true? In The Turnout Myth, Daron Shaw and John Petrocik refute the widely held convention that high voter participation benefits Democrats while low involvement helps Republicans. The authors examineover 50 years of presidential, gubernatorial, Senatorial, and House election data to show that there is no consistent partisan effect associated with voter turnout in national elections. Instead, less-engaged citizens' responses to short-term forces - candidate appeal, issues, scandals, and the like- determine election turnout. Moreover, Republican and Democratic candidates are equally affected by short-term forces. The consistency of these effects suggests that partisan conflict over eligibility, registration, and voting rules and regulations is less important for election outcomes than bothsides seem to believe. Featuring powerful evidence and analytical acumen, this book provides a new foundation for thinking about U.S. elections.
Author : Lorraine Carol Minnite
Release : 2010
Genre : Elections
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Book Synopsis The Myth of Voter Fraud by : Lorraine Carol Minnite
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