INDEX
A
absentee ballots, 31, 82, 83, 135
Adams, Abigail, 26–27
Adams, John, 9–10, 20, 27, 45, 74
Adams, John Quincey, 18
Adelson, Sheldon, 68
Affordable Care Act, 67
African American voters, suppression of, 5–8, 24, 39, 72, 80–82, 85–86, 96, 99–100, 129
“duplicate” names, 116
ex-felons, 129
voter ID laws and, 109
Air America, 66
Alien and Sedition Acts (1798), 20
Alito, Samuel, 70
Amendments to the Constitution First, 60
Second, 24
Fourteenth, 24, 28, 36, 39, 75, 77
Twenty-third, 147
Twenty-sixth, 74
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 2, 3, 40
American exceptionalism, 148
American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), 8, 110–111
American Prospect, 82
American Revolution, 19–20
Americans for Prosperity, 65
Ames, Mark, 52
Anthony, Susan B., 28
Arnold, Benedict, 20
Ashcroft, John, 108
Asian Americans, voter suppression of, 110
Associated Press, 94–95
Association for Psychological Science, 125
Atlas Shrugged (Rand), 50–51
Attucks, Crispus, 20
Australia, 65–66
compulsory voting, 142–143
automatic voter registration, 124–127
B
“Baghdad Year Zero” (Klein), 53
Bajak, Frank, 94–95
Ballot Access and Voting Integrity Initiative of 2002, 108
Bancroft, Edward, 19
Bani-Sadr, Abolhassan, 6
Barkley, Alben, 25
Barkley, Gilbert, 20
Barnes, Roy, 94
Bayh, Birch, 26
Bazelon, Emily, 101
libertarian oligarchs, 41, 46–47, 50–56
tax cuts for, 63
trick to keep everyone from voting, 50–56
as white, 50. See also oligarchy
biometrics, 106
Bradley, Joseph P., 29
Bradwell, Myra, 29
Bradwell v. State of Illinois, 29
Bremer, L. Paul, 53–54
Brennan Center for Justice, 29–30, 101, 125, 127, 130–131
on early voting, 136–137
voter suppression findings, 82–85
Brexit, 65
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), 7, 89
Brown, Donaldson, 51–52
Brown, Kate, 135
Brown, Linda, 39
Brown, Oliver, 39
Brown, Tina, 95 Brown v. Board of Education, 39–41, 60
Buckley, William F., 43
Bump, Philip, 26
Bush, George H. W., 4
Bush, George W., 7, 23, 53, 63, 91, 95, 107–108
federal prosecutors, firing of, 108–109, 117
Byrd, Harry, 40
C
splitting to add Senators, 146
Calvin, John, 42–43
Calvinists, 41–45
“Cancer Eating the Heart of Australian Democracy” (Rudd), 65–66
Carlson, Rachel, 2
Carrington, Edward, 34
Carter, Jimmy, 6, 19, 51, 90, 104
Carter Center, 88
Census Bureau data, 132
Center for Media and Democracy, 46
Central High School (Little Rock, Arkansas), 40
Chapman, Emilee, 143
Charlottesville, Virginia, 17
Chile, 52
Chisholm, Shirley, 119
churches, black, 81–82
Churchill, Winston, 44
citizenship, proof of, 29–30, 82, 106, 110–111, 123
Citizens United v. FEC, 32, 103, 104
Civil Rights Act of 1964, 37, 40–41
Cleveland, Grover, 146
climate change, 105
Clinton, Hillary, 4, 9, 85, 86, 92
Cohen, Michael, 49
college students, voter suppression of, 81, 84, 110, 111
Common Cause, 78
communism, rhetoric of, 50, 57
compulsory voting, 126, 142–143
Congo, 137–138
Congress, 33, 37, 54, 70–71, 79, 98
laws stricken down by Supreme Court, 3
slave states given larger share, 24
Three-Fifths Compromise and, 14–18, 23–24. See also House of Representatives; Senate
Constitutional Convention, 14, 32, 73–74
constitutions, other countries, 75
consumer and workplace protections, 104, 105
Continental Congress, 15
Cooper v. Aaron, 40
Corker, Bob, 104
Cornuelle, Herb, 51
“corporate left,” 105
crisis of legitimacy, 122
Crosscheck (Interstate Crosscheck), 115–116, 128
D
Dakota Territory, 146
Dean, Howard, 95
Declaration of Independence, 19, 27–28
democracy
compulsory voting and, 142–143
Friedman on, 54
libertarian opposition to, 46–47
Republican stance against, 121–124
racism in roots of, 36–37
regional split, 37
Democratic Republican Party, 36, 101
depravity, Calvinist view of, 41–42
Dessem, Larry, 113
direct election, 33
disinformation campaigns, 5
District of Columbia statehood, 145–147
DMV offices, closing or limiting hours, 70, 76, 85, 123, 127
DNA analogy, 43–44
Dole, Bob, 4
double voting, 108, 114–115, 117
Dred Scott v. Sandford, 3
driver’s licenses, 106
National Voter Registration Act of 1993, 32, 69–71
Duke, David, 17
Duncan, Geoff, 94
“duplicate” voters, 115–116
Duverger’s law, 142
E
Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University, 109
early voting, 136–137
Eastern States, 15
Eastland, James, 40
Economist, 132
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 40, 56–57
Election Day, 131
national holiday proposal, 132–133
election fraud, 57, 69, 86, 88, 96
around the world, 87–89
elections, flaws in system, 123–124
Election Studies, 113
Election Systems & Software, 95
Electoral College, 10, 15, 18–23, 41–42
Bush v. Gore decision and, 74–75
foreign interference, prevention of, 19–22
national popular vote and, 140–141
non-amendment alternatives to, 26
slavery and, 23–26
Three-Fifths Compromise and, 18
electoral system, 141–142
Enlightenment, 148
environmental commons, 2
environmental issues, 51
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 58
Equal Protection Clause, Fourteenth Amendment, 75
eugenicist beliefs, 44–45
Evenwel v. Abbott, 77–78
“e-voting,” 137–138
“exact match” laws, 29, 80–81, 83, 86
exceptionalism, American, 148
ex-felons, 83, 86, 108, 127–130
exit polling, 87–93
“adjustment” of, 91–93
around the world, 87–89
United States, 90–93
F
Federalist, no. 68, 21
Federalists, 19
federal prosecutors, firing of, 108–109, 117
Federal-State Employment Service, 57
Ferling, John, 20
First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti, 60
“first past the post, winner takes all” electoral system, 141–142
Flake, Jeff, 104
Ford, Gerald, 4
foreign governments
interference in U.S. politics, 19–22, 96
U.S. assistance to, 52
For the People Act of 2019 (H.R. 1), 121–124, 129, 131
Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), 51–52, 54
founders and framers, 18, 20–23, 73–74
The Fountainhead (Rand), 51
G
Galton, Francis, 44
Gates, Bill, 62
Georgia, voter suppression, 78–86, 94–96, 99–100, 137
Georgia gubernatorial race, 78–79, 86
Georgia Constitutional Convention, 79
Germany, 88–89
gerrymandering, 10, 31, 78, 100–102, 139
Godwin, Miles E., 37
Goldstein, Daniel, 125
Goldwater, Barry, 72
GOP. See Republican Party
GOPAC memo, 63–64
government
as commons, 1
libertarian anti-government view, 55–60
grace, doctrine of, 43
Grant, Ulysses S., 146
Great Depression, Republican, 62, 105
Greatest Generation, 62
H
hacking voting machines, 95
Haley, Nikki, 137–138
Halliburton, 96–97
Halloway, Kali, 48
Hamilton, Alexander, 20–23, 45
Harper’s Magazine, 53
Harris, Katherine, 7
Hayes, Rutherford B., 18
health care, 67–68
Helms, Jesse, 37
Help America Vote Act (HAVA), 93, 98–100
Hereditary Genius: An Inquiry into Its Laws and Consequences (Galton), 44
Heron, Gil Scott, 145
Heyer, Heather, 17
Hispanic voters, suppression of, 5, 7–8, 72, 81, 85, 109, 114
“duplicate” names, 116
ex-felons, 129
Hitler, Adolf, 44
Hofeller, Thomas B., 77–78
Holocaust, 44
The Hornet’s Nest (Carter), 19
House of Representatives, 141
Democratic control of, 6
direct election of, 33
For the People Act of 2019 (H. R. 1), passage of, 122
powers of, 33
slavery’s effect on, 24
Howard, Jacob, 77
Hu, Jane C., 133
Hume, Brit, 66
Husted, John, 70
Husted v. Randolph, 70
Hyde Amendment, 60
I
Iglesias, David, 109
“illegal aliens,” 5, 71–72, 106–107
as business venture, 111–113
Indian Citizenship Act (1924), 30
individual action, need for, 148–149
intelligence services, 96
Internet voting, 137–138
Iowa, prosecution of ex-felons, 127–128
Iran-Contra, 6
Iran hostages, 6
Iraq, 53–54
J
Jackson, Andrew, 25
Jefferson, Thomas, 19–20, 27, 34
Jim Crow, modern day, 86
Jobs, Steve, 62
John Birch Society (JBS), 50, 51–52, 57
Johnson, Eric J., 125
Jordan, Michael, 50
K
Kavanaugh, Bret, 73
Kaye, Harvey J., 56
Kemp, Brian, 80–81, 83–86, 94, 100
Kennedy, John F., 61
Kennedy, Robert F., Jr., 137
Kenya, 88–89
Kercheval, Samuel, 34
Kerry, John, 90–91
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 86, 99
King, Rufus, 15
Klein, Naomi, 53
Koch network, 4, 8, 46, 68, 104
Koch oil operation, 51
Korbmacher, Mrs. (victim of religious superstition), 14, 16–17
“Kris Kobach’s Lucrative Trail of Courtroom Defeats” (ProPublica), 112–113
L
“Language: A Key Mechanism of Control” (GOPAC), 63–64
A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic (Ferling), 20
libertarian oligarchs, 41, 46–47, 50–56
anti-government view, 55–60
Libertarian Party, 51
platform, 1980, 59–60
Lincoln, Abraham, 36, 145, 146
literacy, 135
privatization and, 97–98
local elections, 122
Lofgren, Zoe, 122
M
mail, voting by, 133–136
Manafort, Paul, 4
The Manchurian Candidate (film), 19
Marbury decision (1803), 3
Marshall, Thurgood, 40
“Massive Resistance” movement, 39–40
McCain, John, 67
McKay, John, 108–109
McKinley, David, 121–122
Mercer, Robert, 68
Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education, 41
mergers, corporate, 105
middle class, 62
midterm elections, 2018, 68, 130
military functions, privatization of, 96–97
Millar, Fran, 82
Mississippi Burning (film), 38
MIT Election Data + Science Lab, 134
“model legislation,” 8, 110–111
Monbiot, George, 50–51
money, role in politics, 103–106, 124
Monroe Elementary School (Topeka, Kansas), 39
Motor Voter Act (1993), 32, 69–71, 106–107
Moyers on America (Moyers), 38
MSNBC, 30
Murdoch, Rupert, 65–66, 103–104
N
Nader, Ralph, 2
names, “duplicate,” 115–116
Nation, 8
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 39
National Association of Manufacturers, 46
National Association of Real Estate Boards, 54
National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), 134
National Guard, 40
National Organization for Women (NOW), 29
national popular vote, 140–141
National Rifle Association, 62
National Voter Registration Act of 1993, 32, 69–71, 106–107
Native Americans, vote and, 26–28, 30–32, 135
tribal IDs, 31
Nelson, Herbert, 54
Nevada statehood, 145–146
New York, 24
splitting to add senators, 146
New York Times, 8, 77, 96, 123
Ney, Bob, 98–99
“law and order” and “silent majority” campaigns, 49
treason, 103
non-landowners, 10
Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 (Madison), 15–16, 32
O
Obergefell v. Hodges, 68–69
Ocasio-Cortez, Alexandria, 148
O’Dell, Wally, 95
Ohio, voter suppression, 7–8, 70–71, 73, 95
money, role in politics, 103–106
property rights and, 32–33. See also billionaires; Republican Party
Operation Eagle Eye, 72–73, 76
opt-out vs. opt-in choices, 125–126
Orange Revolution, 88
organ donors, 125
P
Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1, 41
partisan gridlock, 141–142
passports, 106
Pelosi, Nancy, 121
Pena, Lito, 72
Pence, Mike, 5
Pennsylvania Packet, 14
Perdue, Sonny, 94
Perry, Rich, 111
persons, rights of, 32
Philadelphia, Mississippi, 38, 126
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 14
Pinckneym Charles, 16
Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota, 31
Polis, Jared, 140
polls, closing of, 5, 81–82, 85
poor, as defective, 45
Prentis, Henning W., Jr., 46
Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, 117
presidential elections
1792, 132
1800, 20
1812, 101
1872, 28
1956, 56–57
2000, 6–7, 46, 72, 75, 90, 92–93, 99
2008, 17
2016, 4–8, 38, 68, 71–72, 84–85, 92
primary system, 142
prisons, privatization of, 97
“private academies,” 40
privatization, 52–54
of voting machines, 96–98
The Proper Sphere of Government (Spencer), 43–44
property rights, 32–33
ProPublica, 112–113
provisional ballots, 86, 98–100
ex-felons and, 128
Pruitt, Scott, 58
Puerto Rico statehood, 147
R
racism, 4–5
of Democratic Party, 36–37
legacy of Civil Rights Act, 38
myths and stereotypes, 16–17
Three-Fifths Compromise, 14–16
Trump and, 68
why racists don’t want everyone to vote, 36–38. See also white supremacists
Radical Republicans, 36
ranked-choice, or instant-runoff voting system, 141–142
Raskin, Jamie, 75
Read, Leonard, 52
Reagan, Ronald, 4, 7, 38, 46, 58, 63, 72, 90, 112
treason committed by, 6
Reagan administration, 34
Reason magazine, 54–55
redistricting, 77–78
nonpartisan commissions, 102. See also gerrymandering
red shift, 90–93
Refugee Relief Act, 57
refugees, 57
religion, as racism, 5
representatives, 2
Republican National Convention, 204, 111–112
consent decree, 1981, 73
For the People Act, opposition to, 121–124
Radical Republicans, 36
secretaries of state, 5, 7, 9, 92
Senate, control of, 69, 122, 124, 129
stand against voting and democracy, 120–121
Supreme Court, control of, 7–9
Revolutionary War, 27
Riggs, Sarah, 94
right-left battle, 2
right to vote not codified, 73–76, 117, 122, 131
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 56
Rosenbaum, Alisa Zinovyevna (Ayn Rand). See also Rand, Ayn
Rossi, Dino, 108–109
Rove, Karl, 107–108
Rudd, Kevin, 65
Rumsfeld, Donald, 53
Russell, Richard, 37
Russia, 52
Ryan, Paul, 75–76
Schwerner, Goodman, and Chaney, 126
Second Bill of Rights, 56
secretaries of state, Republican, 5, 7, 9, 92
Senate
Electoral College proposals and, 25–26
inadequate representation of people, 25–26, 146–147
Three-Fifths Compromise and, 24–25
“separate but equal,” 39
Shelby County v. Holder, 73, 85, 130
Sherman, Roger, 18
“skin in the game” argument, 47
slave patrols, 17
slavery, Electoral College and, 23–26
small-population states, 24, 26
social Darwinism, reverse, 44
socialism, rhetoric of, 50
social issues, 60–63
Social Security numbers, 128
social welfare programs, billionaire opposition to, 47, 50
solutions, 11
activism, 148–149
automatic voter registration, 124–127
compulsory voting, 142–143
early voting, extension of, 136–137
Election Day as national holiday, 132–133
Electoral College and national popular vote, 140–141
end voter caging, 130–131
ex-felons, restoring rights of, 127–130
mail, voting by, 133–136
non-amendment alternative to Electoral College, 26
paper ballots or receipts, 137–139
For the People Act of 2019 (H.R. 1), 121–124, 129, 131
stop politicians from choosing voters, 139
two-party system, getting beyond, 141–142
Sotomayor, Sonia, 71
“Southern Manifesto” (1956), 40
Southern states
Brown v. Board of Education and, 40
Three-Fifths Compromise and, 14–18, 23–24
“Southern strategy” (Nixon), 38, 57
Soviet Union, 52
Spain, 19
Spencer, Herbert, 43–44
spoof sites, 137
sterilization laws, 44
Stevens, John Paul, 41
stock exchange crash of 1929, 103
Sullivan, James, 9
Supreme Court, 2–4
amicus curiae briefs, 3
gerrymandering rulings, 101–102, 139
Republican, 7–9
voter suppression and, 7–8
voter suppression of Native Americans, 31. See also individual Supreme Court decisions
Sweden, 126
swing states, 141
talk radio, 64–65
Telecommunications Act (1996), 97
Thatcher, Samuel, 25
Three-Fifths Compromise, 14–18, 23–24
Thurmond, Strom, 37
Tillman Act (1907), 103
Topic A show (CNBC), 95
Townhall, 47
Trump, Donald, 4, 18, 63, 67–68
Electoral College and, 23, 119
exit polls and, 92
“illegal alien” rhetoric, 71–72
on Obama’s election, 17
racism of, 49
voter fraud myth and, 113, 117
Trump, Donald, Jr., 38
two-party system, 141–142
Tyler, John, 132
Tytler, Alexander, 46
“Tytler Cycle,” 46
U
unconditional election, Calvinist, 41–42
unregistered voters, 125
US Census Bureau, 30
US Chamber of Commerce memo (Powell), 2–4, 103
V
Vermont, 24
Vespa, Matt, 140
Vietnam, 6
Virginia
Massive Resistance, 40
slaveholders as presidents, 23
Vogel, Ken, 64–65
vote, as commons, 1–2
voter apathy, as result of loss of representation, 106
voter ID laws, 5–6, 8, 82–84, 109–110
women, effect on, 29–30
voter purging, 5, 7–9, 70–71, 84, 85, 123
“duplicate” names, 115–116
for names similar to ex-felons, 128, 129
voter registration, 8, 83, 123
automatic, 124–127
go-to-prison threats, 84
opt-out choice, 125–126
2015–2016 laws, 82–84
District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, 145–147
“Massive Resistance” movement and, 39–40
“model legislation,” 8, 110–111
Native Americans and, 30–32
numbers, not voters, 76–78
Operation Eagle Eye, 72–73, 76
poor as defective, 45
in Southern states, 24
women affected by, 29–30.
See also caging voters; “exact match” laws; ex-felons; exit polling; gerrymandering; polls, closing of; provisional ballots; voter purging; voting machines
voting
new war on, 69–73
right to vote not codified, 73–76, 117, 122
voting, importance of, 1–2
voting fraud, myth of, 2, 71–72, 106–111
as dogma, 107–111
as mission, 111–114
privatization, 96–98
Voting Rights Act of 1965, 5, 31, 37, 78
Georgia and, 80
gutting of, 2013, 5–6, 41, 73, 130
W
wages, 9
Walker, Scott, 8
Wallace, George, 36–37
Wanniski, Jude, 4
“The War on Voting Is a War on Women” (MSNBC), 30
Washington Post, 26, 38, 44, 88, 106–107, 137–138, 140
Watergate investigations, 103
Weinger, Mackenzie, 64–65
Weiser, Wendy, 82
Welch, Robert, 51
Whig Party, 36
white supremacist groups, police investigation numbers, 17
Brown v. Board of Education and, 39–40
fear of nonwhite vote, 41–42. See also racism
“Why I Was Fired” (Iglesias), 109
Williams, Walter E., 47
Wilson, James, 17
Wilson, Pete, 107
Wilson, Woodrow, 44
Winfrey, Oprah, 50
women
no legal existence for, 28–29
voter suppression, effects on, 29–30
Wu, Tim, 123
Wyoming, 24
X
XYZ Affair, 20
Y
Yanukovych, Viktor, 88