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Steal This Vote: Dirty Elections and the Rotten History of Democracy in America
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Steal This Vote: Dirty Elections and the Rotten History of Democracy in America Paperback - 2005

by Andrew Gumbel


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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!) Andrew Gumbel--whose work on the new electronic voting fraud has been praised by Gore Vidal and Paul Krugman, and has won a Project Censored Award--shows that, for all the idealism about American democracy, free and fair elections have been the exception, not the rule. In fact, Gumbel suggests that Tammany Hall, shrouded as it is in moral odium, might have been a fairer system than we have today, because ostensibly positive developments like the secret ballot have been used to squash voting rights ever since.

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A FEW DAYS before the November 2004 election, Jimmy Carter was asked what would happen if, instead of flying to Zambia or Venezuela or East Timor, his widely respected international election-monitoring team was invited to turn its attention to the United States.

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  • Title Steal This Vote: Dirty Elections and the Rotten History of Democracy in America
  • Author Andrew Gumbel
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Edition Unstated
  • Pages 362
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Nation Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date July 10, 2005
  • ISBN 9781560256762 / 1560256761
  • Weight 0.83 lbs (0.38 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.42 x 6.32 x 1.03 in (21.39 x 16.05 x 2.62 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Politics and government, Political corruption - United States
  • Dewey Decimal Code 324.973
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