03826cam a2200433 i 4500 288728 288728 ocn940958136 OCoLC 20191107140518.0 160222s2016 ilua b 001 0 eng 2016009066 9781634254229 (pbk.) 1634254228 (pbk.) AU@ 000057149507 (OCoLC)940958136 pucpr eng rda DLC CICG KF 4886 .A86 2016 342.73/07 23 America votes! : challenges to modern election law and voting rights / Benjamin E. Griffith, editor. Challenges to modern election law and voting rights Third edition. Chicago, Illinois : American Bar Association, Section of State and Local Government Law, 2016. xxxv, 347 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. The work and responsibilities of the Federal Election Commission / Ann M. Ravel -- The Election Advisory Commission's responsibilities for enforcing or interpreting federal election law / Doug Chapin -- Language assistance to voters / Terry AO Minnis -- Using census data sources to prove citizenship in voting rights litigation / C. Robert Heath -- The administrative challenges for recounts, contests, and post-election audits / Rachel Provencher and John Hardin Young -- Early voting / Paul Gronke and Jacob Canter -- Quick and dirty : the new misreading of the Voting Rights Act / Justin Levitt -- Section 3 bail-in / Paul M. Wiley -- The voter fraud myth / Lorraine C. Minnite -- Voter ID as a form of voter suppression / Nicole Austin-Hillery -- Voter suppression litigation / Tanya Clay House and Marcia Johnson-Blanco -- The impact of voter suppression tactics on participation and mobilization of marginalized voters / Tova Wang -- Immigration, voting rights, and electoral access / Nancy G. Abudu -- Felons, fraud, redistricting-and race / Roger Clegg -- Partisan politics, corporate districts, and the Voting Rights Act / Donald Campbell -- Finding middle ground for state legislative reapportionment / Tommie S. Cardin and B. Parker Berry -- Nuts and bolts of section 2 vote dilution litigation from the defense perspective / Vincent R. Fontana and Benjamin E. Griffith. "The third edition of America Votes! is a timely resource for lawyers, 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"--Unedited summary from book cover. Election law United States. Elections United States. Election law. Elections. United States. Legal treatises. Griffith, Benjamin E., American Bar Association. Section of State and Local Government Law, lcc 6 0 0 lcc 0 0 7 7 4 2016-06-30 ABA 116.95 0 KF 4886 .A86 2016 70000000904740 2019-11-07 00:00:00 2019-11-07 6