challenges to modern election law and voting rights Griffith, Benjamin E. American Bar Association Section of State and Local Government Law, text bibliography Legal treatises. ilu 2016 Third edition. monographic eng

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xxxv, 347 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. "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. 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. Benjamin E. Griffith, editor. Includes bibliographical references and index. Election law United States Elections United States Election law Elections United States KF 4886 .A86 2016 342.73/07 9781634254229 1634254228 2016009066 pucpr 160222 20191107140518.0 ocn940958136 eng