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The Hidden History of the War on Voting: Who Stole Your Vote—And How to Get It Back
by Thom Hartmann
The Hidden History of the War on Voting
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Introduction: The Heartbeat of Democracy
Control the Vote, Control the Country
Part One: The Hidden History of the Vote in America
Power to the South: The Three-Fifths Compromise
The Racist Legacy of a Constitutional Compromise
The Founders Feared a Trump-like President—Which Is Why They Established the Electoral College
The Electoral College and Slavery
The Unique Struggles of Women and Native Americans to Vote
The Generational Fight for Women’s Suffrage
Silencing and Suppressing Native Voices
Madison’s Warning
Part Two: The Economic Royalists’ Modern War on Voting
Why Racists Don’t Want Everyone to Vote
The Racist Backlash to Brown v. Board
Conservative Excuses for Preventing Everyone from Voting
The Billionaires’ Trick to Keep Everyone from Voting
Buying Politicians, Selling Lies, and Suppressing the Vote
The Rise of Social Issues
Promoting New(t)speak
The Day the Music Died
A New War on the Vote
Is Voting a Right? Should It Be?
Numbers, Not Voters
Stacey Abrams Was Robbed
Exit Polling around the World
Exit Polls in the US and Red Shift Explained
Voting Machines, Hacking, and Red Shift
Privatizing the Vote with Voting Machines
Suppressing the Vote with Provisional Ballots
Diluting the Vote with Gerrymandering
Depressing the Vote with Money in Politics
The Beginnings of a Myth: Voting Fraud
Voting Fraud: From Myth to Dogma
Kris Kobach: The Voting Fraud Myth Becomes a Mission
Interstate Crosscheck and the Election Integrity Scam
Part Three: Solutions
The GOP’s Grand Stand against Voting and Democracy
Republicans Oppose “For the People Act of 2019”
Automatic Voter Registration
Restore the Vote for Returning Citizens
End Voter Caging
Make Election Day a National Holiday
Vote by Mail
Extend Early Voting
Paper Ballots or Paper Receipts
Stopping Politicians from Choosing Their Own Voters
The Electoral College and a National Popular Vote
Voting Systems Shape Elections: Getting beyond Two Parties
Compulsory Voting
DC and Puerto Rico Statehood, Splitting Up Big States
Get Out There, Get Active
Finally
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
About the Author
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To my grandson, Arthur.
May he grow up in a nation that
once again values democracy.
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