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Laddar... Deliver the Vote: A History of Election Fraud, an American Political Tradition-1742-2004av Tracy Campbell
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. As is the tendency with social science books, this book closely examines case after case after case of voter fraud in the history of the USA. It was interesting to see how far back the phenomenon went, but after a while the endless list of frauds became too monotonous. I had to read this for a class, otherwise I'm sure I would have put it down after the first few chapters when I got the gist of the book. ( ) This is a great book for those, like me, who feel they’re essentially aiding and abetting one miserable, bought-and-sold candidate over another when coerced into voting by friends and family. Despite the revelations of 2000, I never thought to utilize vote fraud in my attempts to sleep in on Super Tuesday. Now I know better. Chock-full of stories revolving around vote buying, ballot box thievery, and complimentary whisky, many of Campbell’s examples logically take place in locales where voter intimidation is perhaps the only thing to do. The machinations in Eastern Kentucky and Anywhere, Louisiana seemingly mean little for the US as a whole, but as LBJ apparently got his political start due to missing ballot box #13 in some Texas border town, one can see the potential ramifications of provincial acts. Having once resided next door the St Louis Gateway Arch, I found the author’s inclusion of the horrendous story most fascinating. Despite being a one-time neighbor and the subsequent author of a seventeen page research paper about the memorial (not published. Hell, it wasn’t even read by my professor it seems.), I knew nothing about the 1935 bond issue. I always figured something was amiss with the fact that a city district of forty blocks jammed with cast-iron structures can be ripped down in months to provide surface parking for decades. I suppose I always assumed it was the handiwork of our ever-so considerate Federal government. Not so – read the book. It seemed, once the two chapter Florida debacle arises, that the author’s point is to highlight that situation as the dénouement of modern US vote fraud, but then he continues on to 2004. For all of the recent examples he necessarily relies heavily on newspaper coverage, which I always find a bit problematic. Nonetheless, this is a terrific story about how one’s vote doesn’t always count. Alas, I probably won’t sleep in next Super Tuesday, nor the next time I have the opportunity to vote for yet more property taxes (how the Hell, btw, does a leased vehicle require sales and property taxes?!?). The author’s primary recommendation is for all legitimate voters to turn out to hopefully counter the effects of foul play in such places BFE, West Virginia. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
If elections are the lifeblood of a democracy, then we have an ailing body politic. From ballot stuffing and intimidating voters, to buying votes, suppressing turnout and manipulating returns, Deliver the Vote is an intensive examination into the hidden interiors of American politics that casts a provocative new light on how power in America is often obtained. Drawing on hundreds of elections from the colonial era to the 2004 election, historian Tracy Campbell reveals how a long-standing culture of corruption is alive and well in local, state, and national elections. Among those whose stories are central to this book are Boss Tweed, William Randolph Hearst, Huey Long, Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson, and Jimmy Carter, as well as countless local and state politicians of every stripe. Combining social and political history in a vivid narrative, Deliver the Vote reveals how fraud has been a persistent and corrosive presence in American history, and is not confined to one party, location, or time period. Campbell explores every major reform to cleanse fraud and corruption--paper ballots, the secret ballot, or voting machines--and explains how they have only changed the way the game is played, sadly showing how American elections have never been in order. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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