Stealing Democracy; The New Politics of Voter Suppression
New York, N.Y. W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2006. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 224 pages. Signed by the author on the Half Title Page. Includes Introduction, The Matrix, as well as Conclusion, The Choice; Acknowledgments; Appendix; Notes; and Index. Chapters include How to Rig Elections; Patchwork Democracy; Does Race Still Matter?; No Backsliding; La Sociedad Abierta; and Fraud or Suppression? The author asserts that politicians from both parties maintain power by selecting specific voters. Elected officials and bureaucrats control thousands of election practices that determine political winners and losers, including the location of election district boundaries, the number of voting booths at urban polling places, and English-only ballots. Spencer A. Overton (born August 11, 1968) is an American lawyer, President of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, and law professor at George Washington University Law School. He is a leading election law scholar, and is a tenured Professor of Law at George Washington University. Overton served as on the Carter-Baker Commission on Federal Election Reform at the American University Center for Democracy and Election Management (CDEM)[3] from May–September 2005.[4] He dissented from the commission's final recommendations, taking issue with the Real ID proposal. Overton is a top bundler for Barack Obama, bundling more than $500,000. In 2005, Overton co-founded, with Professor Paul Butler, Blackprofdotcom, a blog of "race, culture, and society" mainly written by black academics. Overton now is a "Contributor Emeriti" on the blog. More