America votes! : A guide to modern election law and voting rights / Benjamin E. Griffith, editor.

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: American Bar Association. Section of State and Local Government Law
Other Authors: Griffith, Benjamin E.
Language:English
Published: Chicago, Ill. : American Bar Association, Section of State and Local Government Law, [2012], ©2012.
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
Election law > United States.
Elections > United States.
Suffrage > United States.
Apportionment (Election law) > United States.
United States. > Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Voter registration > United States.
Physical Description:xxxvii, 447 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Variant Title:
Guide to modern election law and voting rights.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Part One.
  • Redistricting
  • Defining population for purposes of redistricting / John Hardin Young, Elizabeth L. Howard, and Karuna Seshasai
  • The impact of non-citizens on voting rights issues /. Robert Heath
  • Redrawing the lines : race, democracy, and the 2010 redistricting cycle / Kristen Clarke
  • Legislative redistricting : new challenges / Tommie S. Cardin
  • Practical suggestions for local government attorneys facing redistricting / Tommie S. Cardin
  • Novel (and not-so-novel) alternatives to legislative redistricting / Andrew J. Whalen III
  • Bringing transparency and citizen participation to the redistricting process : lessons learned and how we can prepare for 2020 / Mary G. Wilson
  • Part Two. The voting rights act
  • Protecting language-minority voting rights and implementation of section 203 after 2010 / Terry AO Minnis
  • The new guidelines for section 5 implementation / Abigail Thernstrom
  • Redistricting woes after the 2010 census : statistical estimates, inclusion of college students and prisoners, and safe districts / Benjamin E. Griffith
  • Non-district vote dilution remedies under the voting rights act / Steven J. Mulroy
  • The California Voting Rights Act / Marguerite May Leoni and Chris Skinnell
  • Part Three. Registration, Ballot Access, and Reform Measures
  • The voter registration gap : why it exists and how to narrow it / Estelle H. Rogers and Nicole Kovite Zitler
  • The national voter registration act / Hans A. Von Sparkovsky
  • Significant ballot access issues / Richard Winger
  • Electoral college reform at the state level / Robert W. Bennett
  • Voting technology and the quest for trustworthy elections / Candice Hoke.