How Do People Vote?
Title | How Do People Vote? PDF eBook |
Author | Kristen Rajczak Nelson |
Publisher | The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Pages | 26 |
Release | 2018-07-15 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1538330091 |
Did you know that we vote on the presidential election in November because it's right after harvest time, but before brutal winter weather? There's all kinds of interesting details behind when and how people vote. People vote in a few different ways. Most often, voters go to a polling place to cast their ballot. There, voters may cast their ballot on a piece of paper or electronically. Paper votes are counted by hand, whereas electronic votes are tallied in real time. In other cases, people register to receive an absentee ballot. This means they can send their vote in to be counted through the mail. The information in this book provides readers with an idea of what their adult lives will require in terms of civic duties. Colorful photographs provide readers with close textual correlations.
America Votes!
Title | America Votes! PDF eBook |
Author | Benjamin E. Griffith |
Publisher | American Bar Association |
Pages | 420 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Election law |
ISBN | 9781590319727 |
This book is a snapshot of America's voting and electoral practices, problems, and most current issues. The book addresses a variety of fundamental areas concerning election law from a federal perspective such as the Help America Vote Act, lessons learned from the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections, voter identification, and demographic and statistical experts in election litigation, and more. It is a useful guide for lawyers as well as law school professors, election officials, state and local government personnel, and election workers.
Vote for US
Title | Vote for US PDF eBook |
Author | Joshua A. Douglas |
Publisher | |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1633885100 |
"An expert on US election law presents an encouraging assessment of current efforts to make our voting system more accessible, reliable, and effective"--
Voting Assistance Guide
Title | Voting Assistance Guide PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 314 |
Release | |
Genre | Absentee voting |
ISBN |
Election Day
Title | Election Day PDF eBook |
Author | Emilee Booth Chapman |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2024-08-20 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0691239088 |
An original defense of the unique value of voting in a democracy Voting is only one of the many ways that citizens can participate in public decision making, so why does it occupy such a central place in the democratic imagination? In Election Day, political theorist Emilee Booth Chapman provides an original answer to that question, showing precisely what is so special about how we vote in today’s democracies. By presenting a holistic account of popular voting practices and where they fit into complex democratic systems, she defends popular attitudes toward voting against radical critics and offers much-needed guidance for voting reform. Elections embody a distinctive constellation of democratic values and perform essential functions in democratic communities. Election day dramatizes the nature of democracy as a collective and individual undertaking, makes equal citizenship and individual dignity concrete and transparent, and socializes citizens into their roles as equal political agents. Chapman shows that fully realizing these ends depends not only on the widespread opportunity to vote but also on consistently high levels of actual turnout, and that citizens’ experiences of voting matters as much as the formal properties of a voting system. And these insights are also essential for crafting and evaluating electoral reform proposals. By rethinking what citizens experience when they go to the polls, Election Day recovers the full value of democratic voting today.
America's Disenfranchised
Title | America's Disenfranchised PDF eBook |
Author | Desmond Meade |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 82 |
Release | 2021-11-15 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1501763768 |
The Lawrence and Lynne Brown Democracy Medal, presented by the McCourtney Institute for Democracy at Penn State, recognizes outstanding individuals, groups, and organizations that produce innovations to further democracy in the United States or around the world. Voting is foundational in a democracy, yet over six million American citizens remain stripped of their ability to participate in elections. Once convicted of a felony, people who complete their sentences reenter society, but no longer with the civil rights they once had. They may return to school, secure employment to provide for their families, and become law-abiding, tax-paying citizens—sometimes for decades—and still be denied the voting rights afforded to every other citizen. Desmond Meade, director of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition and a returning citizen himself, played an instrumental role in the landslide 2018 Amendment 4 victory in Florida, which used the ballot box to restore voting rights to 1.4 million Floridians with a previous felony conviction. Meade argues how, state by state, America can do better. His efforts in Florida present a compelling argument that creating access to democracy for those living on the fringes of society will create a more vibrant and robust democracy for all. He is the winner of the 2021 Brown Democracy Medal for his continuing work to restore voting rights and connect Americans along shared social values.
E-Voting and Identity
Title | E-Voting and Identity PDF eBook |
Author | Ammar Alkassar |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 198 |
Release | 2007-12-18 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 3540774920 |
Of interest to both researchers and professionals, this book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the first International Conference on E-Voting and Identity, VOTE-ID 2007, held in Germany in 2007. The 16 revised full papers here were reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in sections that include, among many others, remote electronic voting, evaluation of electronic voting systems, and electronic voting in different countries.