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    How We Vote: Innovation in American Elections
    How We Vote: Innovation in American Elections
    How We Vote: Innovation in American Elections
    Audiobook11 hours

    How We Vote: Innovation in American Elections

    Written by Kathleen Hale, Mitchell Brown and Thomas R. Wilkey

    Narrated by Chelsea Stephens

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    About this audiobook

    The idea of voting is simple, but the administration of elections in ways that ensure access and integrity is complex. In How We Vote, Kathleen Hale and Mitchell Brown explore how election officials work, how ballots are cast and counted, and how jurisdictions try to innovate while also protecting the security of the voting process.

    Election officials must work in a difficult intergovernmental environment of constant change and intense partisanship. Voting practices and funding vary from state to state, and multiple government agencies, the judicial system, voting equipment vendors, nonprofit groups, and citizen activists also influence practices and limit change. Despite real challenges and pessimistic media assessments, Hale and Brown demonstrate that election officials are largely successful in their work to facilitate, protect, and evolve the voting process.

    Using original data gathered from state and local election officials and policymakers across the United States, Hale and Brown analyze innovations in voter registration, voting options, voter convenience, support for voting in languages other than English, the integrity of the voting process, and voting system technology. The result is a fascinating picture of how we vote now and will vote in the future.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateSep 8, 2020
    ISBN9781705264720
    How We Vote: Innovation in American Elections
    Author

    Kathleen Hale

    Kathleen Hale was born and raised in Wisconsin. She graduated from Harvard in 2010. This is her first novel.

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