America Votes!
Subtitle: A Guide to Modern Election Law and Voting Rights
Publisher: American Bar Association
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9781634254229
Subjects: Election law; Elections, united states
Description: "The third edition of America Votes! is a timely resource for lawyers, professors, election officials, and administrators, providing a snapshot of key election and voting rights issues from practitioners highly experienced in a wide variety of areas. Part 1 details the election administration processes, challenges, and opportunities at the local and national level. Included are chapters on the FEC, enforcing federal election law, using census data to prove citizenship, and administrative challenges for recounts, contests, and postelection audits. Part 2 details the Voting Rights Act and discusses rights of language-minority voters, voter suppression tactics including voter ID laws, immigration voting rights, and redistricting issues to watch during the current redistricting cycle. Part 3 details the challenges of redistricting and includes state legislative reapportionment, Section 2 vote-dilution litigation, and corporate districting and the Voting Rights Act"--Unedited summary from book cover.