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Election Meltdown - Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American Democracy (Hardcover)
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Election Meltdown - Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American Democracy (Hardcover)
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"A hard-hitting critique of the American election process as timely
as it is frightening. . . . Required reading for legislators and
voters."-Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review From noted election law
expert Rick Hasen comes a stark warning on the threats to American
democracy in a time of foreign election interference and the
coronavirus pandemic "A must-read. It's well-written, easy to read,
informative and fair. But it doesn't pull punches."-Mark Caputo, on
Twitter As the 2020 presidential campaign begins to take shape,
there is widespread distrust of the fairness and accuracy of
American elections. In this timely and accessible book, Richard L.
Hasen uses riveting stories illustrating four factors increasing
the mistrust. Voter suppression has escalated as a Republican tool
aimed to depress turnout of likely Democratic voters, fueling
suspicion. Pockets of incompetence in election administration,
often in large cities controlled by Democrats, have created an
opening to claims of unfairness. Old-fashioned and new-fangled
dirty tricks, including foreign and domestic misinformation
campaigns via social media, threaten electoral integrity.
Inflammatory rhetoric about "stolen" elections supercharges
distrust among hardcore partisans. Taking into account how each of
these threats has manifested in recent years-most notably in the
2016 and 2018 elections-Hasen offers concrete steps that need to be
taken to restore trust in American elections before the democratic
process is completely undermined. This is an indispensable
analysis, from the nation's leading election-law expert, of the key
threats to the 2020 American presidential election.
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