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The New Politics of Voter Suppression
W. W. Norton
June 2006
224 pages
ISBN: 0393061590
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Political
Spencer Overton attacks the least-inspected area of our
democracy: partisan control of the ballot box. While politicians spew shallow sound bites that describe a
"free" American people who govern themselves by selecting
their representatives, in reality politicians from both
parties maintain control by selecting specific voters.
Incumbent politicians control thousands of election
practices and bureaucratic hurdles that determine who votes
and how their votes are counted, including the location of
election-district boundaries, the number of booths at urban
polling places, and English-only ballots. Spencer Overton
uses real-life stories to show how these seemingly
insignificant practices channel political power and
determine policies on war, schools, clean air, and other
issues that shape our lives. He exposes the pressure points
in this Orwellian system and provides strategies toward
restoring self-government, including removing redistricting
power from self-interested partisans and renewing parts of
the Voting Rights Act that expire in 2007. Overton's
compelling case is vital to the future of our democracy.
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