Stealing Elections, American Style

As Americans grapple with fair elections and the future of democracy, Stealing Elections, American Style shows how the challenges we face today are rooted in historical efforts to control who votes and how elections are decided. Nearly everyone has an opinion about election integrity and voting, but very few have more than an inkling of the truth about American elections. From stuffed ballot boxes to rigged elections, one of the country''s premiere voting rights attorneys, David Walbert, brings unique clarity to these issues by combining fascinating stories about some of the country''s most outlandish stolen elections with a clear explanation of how elections are frequently rigged in advance of a single vote being cast. Drawing from his experience litigating election cases, arguing before the Supreme Court, and teaching constitutional law, Walbert explains how Supreme Court decisions since the 1800s have often been the cause of voting inequality. Readers will gain a deep understanding of the voting issues of today-gerrymandering, voter suppression, fraud, voter ID requirements, and voter purges, among others-and what the future portends. They will also learn how we got into the morass we''re in and how the future can be better.>

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David F. Walbert received undergraduate and graduate degrees in physics from Stanford and the University of Michigan before his passion for social justice drew him to the law. He returned home and attended Case Western Reserve Law School where he graduated at the top of his class and served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review. After a clerkship in Oregon with federal judge Gus Solomon, a legendary advocate for civil rights, Walbert began a five-decade career in Atlanta, Georgia. During that time, he tried a wide range of civil and criminal cases and became one of the country's leading voting rights lawyers. He won cases as a young lawyer that dismantled electoral structures that kept Black candidates from winning office and went on to argue landmark election cases in the Supreme Court over the next thirty years. He has taught constitutional law courses and testified before Congress as an expert on voting rights legislation.

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Stealing Elections, American Style tells the captivating history of voter suppression and outright stolen elections in the United States from the country's founding to the battle over voting rights today.

Nearly everyone has an opinion about election integrity and voting, but very few have more than an inkling of the truth about American elections. From stuffed ballot boxes to rigged elections, one of the country's premiere voting rights attorneys, David Walbert, brings unique clarity to these issues by combining fascinating stories about some of the country's most outlandish stolen elections with a clear explanation of how elections are frequently rigged in advance of a single vote being cast. Drawing from his experience litigating election cases, arguing before the Supreme Court, and teaching constitutional law, Walbert explains how Supreme Court decisions since the 1800s have often been the cause of voting inequality. Readers will gain a deep understanding of the voting issues of today-gerrymandering, voter suppression, fraud, voter ID requirements, and voter purges, among others-and what the future portends. They will also learn how we got into the morass we're in and how the future can be better.

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Acknowledgement and Dedication
Preface

1. Tilden-Hayes and the Stolen Presidency of 1876
2. When Georgia had Three Governors
3. Lyndon Johnson-Two Stolen Elections on the way to the Presidency
4. Jimmy Carter's 1962 Senate Race Almost Stole his Presidency
5. Two Centuries of Voter Suppression
6. The Bush-Gore Election: A Bloodless Coup
7. Drawing Districts to Win and Screw the Other Guy
8. Stop The Steal!
9. Voter Suppression in the 21st Century
10. The Next Stolen Election