Voting

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• 11/10/19
  

  The Electoral College: How the Founders Cheated You of Your Vote

  by Harlow Giles Unger

  Weeks of debate by America’s Founders failed to set any rules at the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia—a failure that led to “cheating” at the Electoral College ever since.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/10/19
  

  Why Southern white women vote against feminism

  by Angie Maxwell

  The often overlooked question that explains why discussion of a gender gap leads us astray.  

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• 8/27/19
  

  A Voting History of American Jews From 1916 to Today

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  Historically, Democratic presidential candidates have received a majority of the Jewish vote.

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• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  1/3/19
  

  The 200-Year History of Using Voter Fraud Fears to Block Access to the Ballot

  by Pema Levy

  It didn't start with Donald Trump.

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• SOURCE: Historic Newspapers (Special to HNN)
  12/10/2018
  

  What this graph shows about women's suffrage

  And why it's so shocking. 

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• SOURCE: NY Review of Books
  9-10-18
  

  Resistance Means More Than Voting

  by Garry Wills

  Obama is wrong to suggest that voting and only voting is the way to express one’s opposition to a tyrant like Trump.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  7-30-18
  

  The Maps That Show That City vs. Country Is Not Our Political Fault Line

  by Colin Woodard

  The key difference is among regional cultures tracing back to the nation’s colonization.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  4-27-18
  

  Most people think ‘whiteness’ is innate. They’re wrong: It was created to keep black people from voting.

  by Katharine Gerbner

  When slaves got close to voting rights, slaveowners changed the rules of the game.

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• SOURCE: Think Progress
  5-24-17
  

  Alabama governor signs law giving thousands of felons their right to vote back

  The state has been relying on a century-old, white supremacist phrase to disenfranchise felons.

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• 9-21-16
  

  Why Do We Vote on Tuesdays?

  by Jennifer Freilach

  And why is it in November?

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  11-10-15 (accessed)
  

  Politics and the New Machine

  by Jill Lepore

  What the turn from polls to data science means for democracy.

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• SOURCE: Politifact
  1-25-15
  

  Professor says right to vote in U.S. ‘has never been intrinsically tied to citizenship’

  "It is true that in the 18th and 19th centuries lots of people who were not United States citizens were voting at every level of government."

• SOURCE: Salon
  5-23-13
  

  Michael Lind: Voting is Not a Right

  Michael Lind is the author of Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States and co-founder of the New America Foundation. Is it time, at long last, for the citizens of the United States to enjoy the constitutional right to vote for the people who govern them?Phrased in that way, the question may come as a shock. The U.S. has waged wars in Iraq and Afghanistan justified, at least in rhetoric, by the claim that people deserve the right to vote for their leaders. Most of us assume that the right to vote has long been enshrined in the U.S. Constitution.Not according to the Supreme Court. In Bush v. Gore (2000), the Court ruled that “[t]he individual citizen has no federal constitutional right to vote for electors for the President of the United States.” That’s right. Under federal law, according to the Supreme Court, if you are a citizen of the United States, you have a right to own a firearm that might conceivably be used in overthrowing the government. But you have no right to wield a vote that might be used to change the government by peaceful means....

• SOURCE: Wilson Quarterly
  Winter 2013
  

  Voting Against Freedom

  With its inspiring images of citizens around the Middle East taking to the streets to demand an end to dictatorship, the Arab Spring rekindled our faith in democracy. As the dramatic events unfolded on television, it was impossible not to believe that however tightly autocrats may try to hold on to power, and however messy transitions may be, in the end, despotism must yield to the will of the people....