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From Florida 2000 to the Next Election Meltdown
Yale University Press
August 2012
On Sale: August 14, 2012
256 pages
ISBN: 0300182031
EAN: 9780300182033
Kindle: B008MXQCPY
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Political
In terms of the administration of elections, the 2000
presidential race was a watershed event. The dispute over
the vote count in Florida, ultimately decided along with the
presidency by the U.S. Supreme Court, revealed that our
electoral processes are not only deeply flawed, but flawed
in far too many ways. Voter rolls are often inaccurate,
election workers are poorly trained, ballots are poorly
designed, machines function inconsistently, procedures are
not consistent from one county to the next, election
administrators are often partisan (sometimes the state
official who certifies the vote count is also the manager of
one candidate's campaign in that state), and the laws
governing elections vary from state to state. The result is
that voters in different counties may have very different
odds of casting a vote that is actually counted. None of the
problems uncovered by the 2000 election have been solved;
most have gotten worse. And the political atmosphere in
which disputes over close elections must be resolved has
grown significantly more polarized. In an environment in
which litigation over elections has increased dramatically,
judges now frequently divide along party lines in deciding
election law disputes. "The Voting Wars" argues that the
next very close presidential election has the potential to
cause serious damage. Americans' faith in the integrity of
their electoral processes and thus in the legitimacy of
their government could be seriously compromised. Written by
one of America's best-known experts on election law, "The
Voting Wars" provides a definitive expert overview of an
increasingly urgent threat to the democratic system.
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