Counting Votes and the Rule of Law

There are few reads as distressing as Tracy Campbell's, Deliver the Vote. The corruption in American elections, whether it be to disenfranchise African Americans after the Civil War or the machine politics that put both Lyndon Johnson and Harry Truman in the Senate, is difficult fully to grasp. It is almost as though voter fraud is endemic to American history.

December 30, 2020 at 12:57 PM

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Cliff Rieders

There are few reads as distressing as Tracy Campbell's, "Deliver the Vote." The corruption in American elections, whether it be to disenfranchise African Americans after the Civil War or the machine politics that put both Lyndon Johnson and Harry Truman in the Senate, is difficult fully to grasp. It is almost as though voter fraud is endemic to American history.