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A FEW DAYS before the November 2004 election, Jimmy Carter was asked what would happen if, instead of flying to Zambia or Venezuela or East Timor, his widely respected international election-monitoring team was invited to turn its attention to the United States. Includes bibliographical references (p. 347-354) and index How to steal an election -- The antidemocratic tradition and the new right -- pt. 1. Voting in the age before mechanization -- Slavery and the system -- Patronage, liquor, and graft: the ascent of machine politics -- The theft of the century -- The 1896 watershed and the paradox of reform -- The long agony of the disenfranchised South -- Chicago: the other kind of mob rule -- pt. 2. Voting in the machine age -- Levers, punch cards, and the fallacy of the technological fix -- Democracy's frangible connections: Florida 2000 -- The miracle solution -- Backlash -- Round on the ends and high in the middle: Election 2004 -- Democracy here and there -- The democratic future The 2000 presidential election meltdown and the more recent controversy about computer voting machines did not come out of the blue. Steal This Vote tells the fraught but very colorful history of electo

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Author

Andrew Gumbel

Publisher

New York: Nation Books

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9781560256762

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, History, Social_sciences

Rating

3.7 / 5 (15 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14