Watergate brought us the modern era of campaign finance regulation. Government by the consent of the governed has become government by the consent of the rich. After Citizens United, dark money has become the currency for political engagement. At the same time, the Supreme Court in Selby County ushered in a return to limits on access to registration and voting. The Supreme Court also continues to struggle to define unconstitutional gerrymandering America Votes!, Fourth Edition confronts these issues. The authors challenge us to think of a political system in new ways with a focus on our founders' goal of a more perfect union. This book is a must-read for anyone concerned about our political future.America Votes!, Fourth Edition addresses important electoral issues, including: - Voter qualifications, registration, immigration and citizenship, language minority participation, and Native American voting;- The voting process, early voting, same day registration, cybersecurity threats, campaign finance pitfalls, and Maine's experiment with ranked-choice voting;- Voting rights litigation, section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, criminal enforcement, the impact of Shelby County and legislation to reform the voting process;- Recounts and audits and the legacy of Gore v. Bush; and- Redistricting equal protection and fair districts math and partisan gerrymandering.
About the Author: Ben Griffith is Principal of Griffith Law Firm in Oxford, Mississippi, and Adjunct Professor of Election Law at the University of Mississippi School of Law, earning a J.D. in 1975 after receiving a B.A. in English and German from the Ole Miss in 1973. His practice emphasizes civil litigation in the fields of voting rights, election law, civil rights, and school desegregation, and he has been trial and appellate counsel for governmental defendants in federal civil litigation in the Fourth, Fifth, and Eleventh Circuits. He chaired the ABA Standing Committee on Election Law and the Section of State and Local Government Law. He is a member of the Council of the Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative (CEELI), the ABA Board of Governors (2016-2019), and House of Delegates (2010-2019). John Hardin "Jack" Young is a past Chair of the ABA's Senior Lawyer Division and Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice. He is an Adjunct Professor of International and Comparative Election Law at William & Mary Law School, Senior Global Election Dispute Resolution Advisor for the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES), and Senior Counsel at SandlerReiff in Washington, D.C. He is also a former Chair of the ABA's Standing Committee on Election Law, editor and contributor to International Election Principles: Democracy and the Rule of Law (ABA 2008), and an author of "Alternative Dispute Resolution Mechanisms" (with David Kovick) in Guidelines for Understanding, Adjudicating, and Resolving Disputes in Elections (IFES 2011). He is also the editor of International Election Remedies (ABA 2016). He received his law degrees from University of Virginia (J.D.) and Oxford University (B.C.L.).