Download or read book Ballot Boxing written by Lucy Santora and published by . This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to participate in democracy? Is merely existing as a registered voter enough, or do you have to participate in every election, every political discussion? In Ballot Boxing, author Lucy Santora takes a look at post-2016 America and the electoral process within. Democracy dictates that voting is the sole avenue to exact change, but figuring out who to vote for-and even how to vote-can be an arduous process. Santora shares stories about 2020's darling politicians to show how the political landscape has radically changed from the previous epoch. Redefining the idea of a political handbook, Ballot Boxing recognizes that the sphere of American politics is constantly in flux, and teaches its readers how to: Navigate a democratic landscape in a mire of disinformation Grasp how rising political stars use personality to bolster their policies Guide others on how to utilize their voting power Use their vote to create a robust, engaging democratic system And more... Lucy Santora's gathered perspectives, collected in Ballot Boxing to represent every facet of the American political mind, provide keen insight into how the individual American can leverage their vote to mean more in a tumultuous era.
Download or read book Reclaiming the Ballot written by Ward Macauley and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ballot Battles written by Edward Foley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2000 presidential race resulted in the highest-profile ballot battle in over a century. But it is far from the only American election determined by a handful of votes and marred by claims of fraud. Since the founding of the nation, violence frequently erupted as the votes were being counted, and more than a few elections produced manifestly unfair results. Despite America's claim to be the world's greatest democracy, its adherence to the basic tenets of democratic elections-the ability to count ballots accurately and fairly even when the stakes are high-has always been shaky. A rigged gubernatorial election in New York in 1792 nearly ended in calls for another revolution, and an 1899 gubernatorial race even resulted in an assassination. Though acts of violence have decreased in frequency over the past century, fairness and accuracy in ballot counting nonetheless remains a basic problem in American political life. In Ballot Battles, Edward Foley presents a sweeping history of election controversies in the United States, tracing how their evolution generated legal precedents that ultimately transformed how we determine who wins and who loses. While weaving a narrative spanning over two centuries, Foley repeatedly returns to an originating event: because the Founding Fathers despised parties and never envisioned the emergence of a party system, they wrote a constitution that did not provide clear solutions for high-stakes and highly-contested elections in which two parties could pool resources against one another. Moreover, in the American political system that actually developed, politicians are beholden to the parties which they represent - and elected officials have typically had an outsized say in determining the outcomes of extremely close elections that involve recounts. This underlying structural problem, more than anything else, explains why intense ballot battles that leave one side feeling aggrieved will continue to occur for the foreseeable future. American democracy has improved dramatically over the last two centuries. But the same cannot be said for the ways in which we determine who wins the very close races. From the founding until today, there has been little progress toward fixing the problem. Indeed, supporters of John Jay in 1792 and opponents of Lyndon Johnson in the 1948 Texas Senate race would find it easy to commiserate with Al Gore after the 2000 election. Ballot Battles is not only the first full chronicle of contested elections in the US. It also provides a powerful explanation of why the American election system has been-and remains-so ineffective at deciding the tightest races in a way that all sides will agree is fair.
Download or read book The Short Ballot written by National Short Ballot Organization and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book This is What Democracy Looked Like written by Alicia Yin Cheng and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is What Democracy Looked Like, the first illustrated history of printed ballot design, illuminates the noble but often flawed process at the heart of our democracy. An exploration and celebration of US ballots from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this visual history reveals unregulated, outlandish, and, at times, absurd designs that reflect the explosive growth and changing face of the voting public. The ballots offer insight into a pivotal time in American history—a period of tectonic shifts in the electoral system—fraught with electoral fraud, disenfranchisement, scams, and skullduggery, as parties printed their own tickets and voters risked their lives going to the polls.
Download or read book SHORT BALLOT PRINCIPLES written by RICHARD S. CHILDS and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ballot Box the Palladium of Our Liberties written by BALLOT BOX. and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Behind the Ballot Box written by Douglas J. Amy and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2000-09-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Examines the advantages and disadvantages of different voting systems and provides a guide to improving American elections.
Download or read book The Ballot in America written by Ballot Society (London) and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Black Box Voting written by Bev Harris and published by Talion Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive expose on electronic voting. 328 footnotes. Over 100 cases documented where voting machines miscounted elections, internal memos, details about the source code and programming that controls voting machines used worldwide.
Download or read book Cultures of Voting written by Romain Bertrand and published by C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS. This book was released on 2007 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book's originality lies in subjecting to critical scrutiny a technology that is so often taken for granted in discussions on democracy. We know that the secret ballot was a good thing, and that it is an old technique, perhaps co-eval with modern procedures of voting. This book reveals that it was not so that the rise of such procedures is a historical accident andnovelty, and that the meaning and procedures of the secret ballot still vary enormously across different places.
Download or read book Reclaiming the Ballot Classic Reprint written by Ward MacAuley and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Reclaiming the Ballot The bulwark of our liberties consists of a small iron box. Into this cage several hundred men are crammed in the course of one short day. Inside this little iron box, the men of America exercise the greatest right they have, the right of the free ballot. Among a free people, the right to choose those who make and administer the laws should be their most precious possession. "Self-governing" we call ourselves. What is the theory of it all? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Fun written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Facts about the Ballot written by Society for Promoting the Adoption of the Vote by Ballot and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Latter day pamphlets written by Thomas Carlyle and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Congressional Globe written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 1078 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
