Table of Contents
Introduction: The Heartbeat of Democracy 1
Control the Vote, Control the Country 4
Part 1 The Hidden History of the Vote in America 13
Power to the South: The Three-Fifths Compromise 14
The Racist Legacy of a Constitutional Compromise 16
The Founders Feared a Trump-like President-Which Is Why They Established the Electoral College 18
The Electoral College and Slavery 23
The Unique Struggles of Women and Native Americans to Vote 26
The Generational Fight for Women's Suffrage 28
Silencing and Suppressing Native Voices 30
Madison's Warning 32
Part 2 The Economic Royalists' Modern War on Voting 35
Why Racists Don't Want Everyone to Vote 36
The Racist Backlash to Brown v. Board 39
Conservative Excuses for Preventing Everyone from Voting 41
The Billionaires' Trick to Keep Everyone from Voting 50
Buying Politicians, Selling Lies, and Suppressing the Vote 56
The Rise of Social Issues 60
Promoting New(t)speak 63
The Day the Music Died 67
A New War on the Vote 69
Is Voting a Right? Should It Be? 73
Numbers, Not Voters 76
Stacey Abrams Was Robbed 78
Exit Polling around the World 87
Exit Polls in the US and Red Shift Explained 90
Voting Machines, Hacking, and Red Shift 93
Privatizing the Vote with Voting Machines 96
Suppressing the Vote with Provisional Ballots 98
Diluting the Vote with Gerrymandering 100
Depressing the Vote with Money in Politics 103
The Beginnings of a Myth: Voting Fraud 106
Voting Fraud: From Myth to Dogma 107
Kris Kobach: The Voting Fraud Myth Becomes a Mission 111
Interstate Crosscheck and the Election Integrity Scam 114
Part 3 Solutions 119
The GOP's Grand Stand against Voting and Democracy 120
Republicans Oppose "For the People Act of 2019" 121
Automatic Voter Registration 124
Restore the Vote for Returning Citizens 127
End Voter Caging 130
Make Election Day a National Holiday 132
Vote by Mail 133
Extend Early Voting 136
Paper Ballots or Paper Receipts 137
Stopping Politicians from Choosing Their Own Voters 139
The Electoral College and a National Popular Vote 140
Voting Systems Shape Elections: Getting beyond Two Parties 141
Compulsory Voting 143
DC and Puerto Rico Statehood, Splitting Up Big States 145
Get Out There, Get Active 148
Finally 148
Notes 151
Acknowledgments 161
Index 163
About the Author 175
