![]() Terrible precedent,” but he never shows that it has led to “voter suppression.” He has harsh words for the Supreme Court’sĬounty Election Board, which upheld Indiana’s voter ID law, calling it “a Laws don’t prevent much fraud, Hasen provides no reason to believe that voter Hasen convincingly argues that voter ID laws are simply not a very useful tool for combatting real-time fraud at the polling place and that such fraud is rare in any event. Almost the entirety of the chapter is devoted to criticism of laws requiring voters to present identification at the polls-and to criticism of those who promote such laws as necessary to fight voter fraud. Professor Hasen clearly sees the greatest threat to American democracy as “voter suppression.” This is the subject of the first and longest chapter in Meltdown, and it permeates the entire book. Meltdown, and the book may tell us more about the meltdown of the liberal That sense of perspective is lacking in Election And fiery rhetoric about fraud and corruption is SenateĮlection with 200 late-discovered votes cast in a single precinct by voters Than in the past-long gone are the days when Lyndon Johnson could steal a U.S. Elections are almost certainly less prone to fraud and dirty tricks Voter registration, legalization of “ballot harvesting,” and early voting.Įlection administration is more professional than at any time in our nation’s Tremendous pressure to make voting still easier through mail voting, election-day There are fewer barriers to voting than in the past, yet there is still Substantial reason to believe that each is less of a threat than in the past. But none of theseįour horsemen of the electoral apocalypse are exactly new, and there is “We have toĪct now,” he warns, lest the next close election “tear us apart.”Ĭourse, try to prevent and mitigate each of these things. Rhetoric that causes Americans to doubt the honesty of elections. Voter suppression, administrative incompetence, dirty tricks, and incendiary Professor Richard Hasen, a leading legal scholar in election law, argues thatĪmerican democracy faces a grave threat from a combination of four factors: Meltdown: Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American Democracy, States on the verge of an “election meltdown”? In his book, Election
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