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The third edition of America Votes! is a timely resource for Sawyers, professors, election officials, and administrators, providing a snapshot of key election and voting rights issues from practitioners highly experienced in a wide variety of areas. Part 1 details the election administration processes, challenges, and opportunities at the local and national level. Included are chapters on the FEC, enforcing federal election law, using census data to prove citizenship, and administrative challenges for recounts, contests; and postelection audits. Part 2 details the Voting Rights Act and discusses rights of language-minority voters, voter suppression tactics including voter ID laws, immigration voting rights, and redistricting issues to watch during the current redistricting cycle. Part 3 details the challenges of redistricting and includes state legislative reapportionment, Section 2 vote-dilution litigation, and corporate districting and the Voting Rights Act. Book jacket.

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• Foreword(p. xiii)
• Preface(p. xvii)
• About the Editor(p. xxi)
• About the Authors(p. xxiii)
• Introduction(p. xxxv)
• Part 1 Electoral Administration and Technology: The New Challenges
• Chapter 1 The Work and Responsibilities of the Federal Election Commission(p. 3)
• I Disclosure of Political Spending: Central to the FEC's Mission(p. 3)
• II The Supreme Court Affirms the Constitutionality of the FECA's Disclosure Requirements(p. 4)
• III The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act Expands Disclosure(p. 5)
• IV The Supreme Court Affirms the Constitutionality of BCRA's Disclosure Requirements(p. 6)
• V The Roberts Court Strikes Down Outside Spending Prohibitions(p. 6)
• VI The FEC's Self-imposed Limits on Disclosure(p. 7)
• VII Van Hollen v. FEC 8 VIII. Citizens United v. FEC(p. 8)
• IX McCutcheon v. FEC(p. 10)
• X Political Committee Status: Failure to Enforce the Law Is Preventing Adequate Campaign Finance Disclosure(p. 11)
• XI Conclusion(p. 12)
• Notes(p. 12)
• Chapter 2 The Election Advisory Commission's Responsibilities for Enforcing or Interpreting Federal Election Law(p. 16)
• Notes(p. 19)
• Chapter 3 Language Assistance to Voters(p. 21)
• I Enforcement of Federal Laws Protecting Language Minority Voters(p. 23)
• II State and Local Opportunities(p. 28)
• III Conclusion(p. 39)
• Notes(p. 40)
• Chapter 4 Using Census Data Sources to Prove Citizenship in Voting Rights Litigation(p. 45)
• I The Census Long Form and the Sample-Detail File(p. 46)
• II The American Community Survey(p. 47)
• III Sample Size(p. 47)
• IV Sampling Error(p. 48)
• V Non-sampling Error(p. 49)
• VI Can Citizen Voting-Age Population Numbers Be Used to Draw Districts?(p. 52)
• VII Conclusion(p. 53)
• Notes(p. 54)
• Chapter 5 The Administrative Challenges for Recounts, Contests, and Post-Election Audits(p. 58)
• I Recounts(p. 59)
• II Contests(p. 61)
• III The Search for "Constitutional Standards" in the Post-Bush v. Gore Era(p. 63)
• IV Post-Election Audits(p. 70)
• V Conclusion(p. 74)
• Notes(p. 75)
• Part 2 Challenges for Voting Rights
• Chapter 6 Early Voting(p. 91)
• I A Typology of Early Voting Law and Procedures(p. 91)
• II Three Periods of Reform(p. 97)
• III Conclusion(p. 104)
• References(p. 104)
• Notes(p. 106)
• Chapter 7 Quick and Dirty: The New Misreading of the Voting Rights Act(p. 109)
• I The Constitution and the Voting Rights Act(p. 112)
• II Demographic Determinism and Racial Essentialism in This Redisricting Cycle(p. 118)
• III Rationales and Consequences(p. 126)
• Notes(p. 128)
• Chapter 8 Section 3 Bail-in(p. 144)
• I The Pocket Trigger of Section 3(c)(p. 145)
• II Using Section 3(c) After Shelby County(p. 146)
• III Amending Section 3(c)(p. 148)
• IV Conclusion(p. 149)
• Notes(p. 149)
• Chapter 9 The Voter Fraud Myth(p. 153)
• I The Changing Voter Identification Law Landscape(p. 153)
• II A Question of Evidence(p. 158)
• III Reactions to the Lack of Evidence of Voter Fraud(p. 159)
• IV Enforcement and Remedies(p. 162)
• V Conclusion(p. 164)
• Notes(p. 165)
• Chapter 10 Voter ID as a Form of Voter Suppression(p. 174)
• I How Did It All Begin?(p. 174)
• II The Real Effects of Voter ID Requirements(p. 176)
• III Challenges to Voter ID Laws(p. 178)
• IV Conclusion(p. 182)
• Notes(p. 183)
• Chapter 11 Voter Suppression Litigation(p. 187)
• I Voter Suppression: Legislation, Procedures, and Policies Limiting Access to the Ballot(p. 187)
• II Veasey v. Abbott: How Texas's Voter ID Law Undermines Minority Access to the Vote(p. 191)
• III Florida v. United States: Impact of Reducing Early Voting(p. 193)
• IV Kobach v. Election Assistance Commission: Challenging the Federal Role in Promoting Voter Registration(p. 194)
• V League of Women Voters v. Brunner: How Deficient Election Administration Burdens Voters(p. 196)
• VI Conclusion(p. 197)
• Notes(p. 197)
• Chapter 12 The Impact of Voter Suppression Tactics on Participation and Mobilization of Marginalized Voters(p. 203)
• Notes(p. 210)
• Chapter 13 Immigration, Voting Rights, and Electoral Access(p. 213)
• I History of Noncitizen Voting in the United States(p. 214)
• II Noncitizen Voting Today(p. 214)
• III Noncitizens Are People Too(p. 216)
• IV Conclusion(p. 218)
• Notes(p. 218)
• Chapter 14 Felons, Fraud, Redistricting-and Race(p. 221)
• I The Automatic Re-enfranchisement of Felons(p. 221)
• II Ballot Security, Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, and "Disparate Impact"(p. 229)
• III Race and Redistricting(p. 234)
• IV Conclusion(p. 235)
• Notes(p. 235)
• Part 3 The Challenges of One Person, One Vote in Redistricting
• Chapter 15 Partisan Politics, Corporate Districts, and the Voting Rights Act(p. 241)
• I Partisanship in Redistricting: Partisan Gerrymandering(p. 242)
• II Partisanship and Other Voting Regulations(p. 249)
• III Conclusion(p. 256)
• Notes(p. 257)
• Chapter 16 Finding Middle Ground for State Legislative Reapportionment(p. 261)
• I Evolution of Legislative Redistricting(p. 261)
• II Finding Middle Ground(p. 265)
• III Conclusion(p. 270)
• Notes(p. 271)
• Chapter 17 Nuts and Bolts of Section 2 Vote Dilution Litigation from the Defense Perspective(p. 275)
• I Practical Considerations for Defending the Section 2 Case(p. 275)
• II Problematic Issues Facing Section 2 Litigants(p. 285)
• III History of Section 3(c) Bail-in(p. 298)
• IV Fee Awards to Prevailing Defendants in VRA Litigation(p. 303)
• V Prevailing Party Status(p. 303)
• VI Conclusion(p. 316)
• Notes(p. 317)
• Table of Cases(p. 326)
• Index(p. 336)

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Benjamin E. Griffith represents local governments in redistricting and vote-dilution litigation, civil rights defense, and government tort litigation. He serves in the ABA House of Delegates and as a section delegate from the Section of State Local Government Law.