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9780786715916

Deliver the Vote : A History of Election Fraud, an American Political Tradition-1742-2004

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  • ISBN13:

    9780786715916

  • ISBN10:

    078671591X

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2005-10-12
  • Publisher: Perseus Books Group
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Summary

"In the first comprehensive history of election fraud in America, Tracy Campbell reveals how our political culture has been diminished and eroded by centuries-long corruption in local, state, and national elections." "Drawing on records of hundreds of elections from the pre-colonial era through the 2004 election, Tracy Campbell reveals how a persistent culture of corruption has long thrived in American elections. Among the public figures whose stories are central to his chronicle are George Washington, Boss Tweed, William Randolph Hearst, Huey Long, Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter, and George W. Bush, as well as countless local and state politicians." "Our elections are often held up as the model for the world's budding democracies, such as Ukraine or Iraq, to emulate. But after two of the most bitterly contested presidential elections in American history, this book shows how our democratic house has really never been in proper order. Using a candid appraisal of our history as a guide, Deliver the Vote offers some surprising suggestions in order for a demoralized electorate to reclaim its democratic birthright."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Tracy Campbell is the author of THE POLITICS OF DESPAIR: POWER AND RESISTANCE IN THE TOBACCO WARS; and SHORT OF THE GLORY: THE FALL AND REDEMPTION OF EDWARD F. PRITCHARD, JR., which tells the story of a brilliant politician’s demise due to ballot box stuffing. SHORT OF THE GLORY was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and was featured on NPR's "Morning Edition" program. Campbell is Associate Professor of History and Co-Director of the Wendell H. Ford Public Policy Research Center at the University of Kentucky.

Table of Contents

Introduction ``The Inclination to Injustice'' xv
Part One The Failure of a Democratic Experiment
``I Never Saw Such Havock''
3(28)
A ``Corrupting Influence''
The Rise of Parties
``The Pivot on Which Turns the First Wheel''
``Let Dogs Be Registered!''
``We Ought to Be the Last People Afraid to Vote''
Tammany Hall
``The Embodiment of All That Is Fraudulent''
Defining the Problem
Freedom or Slavery
The Limits of Popular Sovereignty
31(20)
Kansas Dirt
Federal Complicity
``What Is Popular Government Worth?''
Regulating the Election
1860
``Can You Hold Your State?''
51(32)
``Without Restraint or Regulation''
``You Can Fill Them Up as Well as We Can Here''
Black Suffrage
``We Intend to Succeed by Intimidation''
The Thefts of 1876
Who Decides?
The Greatest Danger to Free Government
``The Holiest Institution of the American People''
83(30)
Self-Preservation
Shaving Moustaches
Social Darwinism and Elections
Challenges
``Men of the Strictest Integrity''
Approaching the Gates of the Penitentiary
Voting in Secret
``The People Are Demoralized''
``We Have Taken a City. To God Be the Praise''
The Agents of Democracy
Part Two The Struggle to Reclaim Democracy
How to Steal an Election
113(23)
``The Political Filth of Louisville''
``We Were Cheated on Every Side''
Nothing Short of Revolutionary Tactics
``All Elections Require Money''
``The Wagon That Stole Our Rights''
``Frauds Open and Brazen''
The Triumph of Democracy
A City of White People
``Louisville Is Not a Hardened Sinner''
``The Lowest Layer of Corruption''
136(24)
Hearst
``It's Just a Condition Down There''
``Worse Than Dynamite''
``Next Time, Be More Careful''
The Suffrage Issue
Congressional Remedies
Less Than a One-in-Eight Chance
``Accept Defeat Like a Man''
The Real Foundations of the Gateway Arch
160(32)
The St. Louis Tradition
Developing the Riverfront
The Dictator
Delivering the Vote
``Voted `Em Like Soldiers''
``A Miscarriage of Justice''
``It Stinks''
``The Greatest Memorial Since the Eiffel Tower''
``Consistency, Thou Art a Jewel''
192(23)
Pendergast
Stealing Second Base
Outdummied
The Proper Protection
Women and the Honest Election League
EPIC
Bloody Harlan
``Sober, Square, and Honest''
Part Three The Path to Popular Resignation
Uncomfortable Majorities
215(27)
``God Almighty, Sears Roebuck, and Gene Talmadge''
``These are the Same Old Cracker Tactics''
``We Didn't Steal as Many Counties as You Think''
The Duke of Duval
``As Clean an Election As Ever Has Been Held''
Ballot Box 13
``Yes, It's True''
``The Good, the True, and the Beautiful''
``One Person, One Vote''
``You Haven't Learned Anything About Voting My Way''
``Elections Are Like Cement''
242(26)
Legalized Bribery
``It Was Going to Be All Right''
``Be Held for Naught''
``A Sad Day in American Politics''
Hawaii
Set in Concrete
``Substantial Non-Complementary Miscounts''
The Cold Light of the Next Dawn
Uncovering the Daley Machine
Thieves Who Steal Democracy
268(24)
The Freedom Ballot
Protective Zones
Plaquemines---``This Is the First Time We've Had an Open Election''
``To Get 50 Percent of the Vote, You've Got to Buy It''
Absentee Ballots and Bullets
``A Successful Flea Market''
Phantom Voters
The Paradox of Modern Civic Life
``Democracy Is Dispensable in Miami''
A Hidden Time Bomb
292(33)
Suspicious Activity
Dead Man Running
``From the Comfort of Your Home''
Count Till You Win
Hyper-Technical Reliances
``Until Voters Get to Speak Again''
``Widespread Voter Disfranchisement''
``Count Every Vote''
Semi-Spontaneous Combustion
537 Votes
Bush v. Gore
``Our Votes Are Not Sacrosanct''
Conclusion
``Something Very Personal''
325(16)
2004
``Have a Nice Day''
New Machines
``The Long and Ugly Tradition''
Reclaiming Democracy
``Something Very Personal''
Endnotes 341(58)
Selected Bibliography 399(34)
Acknowledgments 433(6)
Index 439(14)
About the Author 453

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