Electoral Dysfunction, Victoria Bassetti
Electoral Dysfunction, Victoria Bassetti
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Electoral Dysfunction
A Survival Manual for American Voters

Author: Victoria Bassetti

Narrator: Lloyd James, Marguerite Gavin

Unabridged: 6 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/08/2012

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

Imagine a country where the right to vote is not guaranteed by the Constitution, where the candidate with the most votes loses, and where paperwork requirements and bureaucratic bungling disenfranchise millions. You're living in it. If the consequences weren't so serious, it would be funny.

An eye-opening, fact-filled companion to the forthcoming PBS documentary starring political satirist and commentator Mo Rocca, Electoral Dysfunction illuminates a broad array of issues, including the Founding Fathers' decision to omit the right to vote from the Constitution and the legal system's patchwork response to this omission; the battle over voter ID, voter impersonation, and voter fraud; the foul-ups that plague Election Day, from ballot design to contested recounts; the role of partisan officials in running elections; and the antidemocratic origins and impact of the Electoral College. The book concludes with a prescription for a healthy voting system by Heather Smith, president of Rock the Vote.

Published in the run-up to the 2012 election, Electoral Dysfunction is for listeners across the political spectrum who want their votes to count.

About Victoria Bassetti

Victoria Bassetti has worked with legislative and judicial bodies of the U.S. government, including serving as chief counsel/staff director to a subcommittee of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. She has been active in numerous political campaigns and participates regularly in Election Day voter-protection efforts. She is the author of Electoral Dysfunction, a companion to the PBS documentary of the same name. The documentary, Electoral Dysfunction, is directed by Bennett Singer, Leslie D. Farrell, and David Deschamps, whose credits include multiple Emmy, Peabody, and duPont-Columbia awards.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kelly

Good not great. Not exactly unbiased but not obnoxiously slanted. Good primer on the basics of voting for those a little rusty on 8th grade civics.......more

Goodreads review by Jake

I read some of it and came to conclusion that when someone says bipartisan or nonpartisan, they mean to the left. Victoria writes well, but if you pay attention to a more detailed explanation on the voter id, she takes sides and states an opinion that it would be discouraging the voters more aka vot......more

Goodreads review by Ray

Victoria Bassetti uses humor and wit to take an irreverent (and nonpartisan) look at voting in America prior to concluding with a prescription for a healthy voting system. This is a companion book to a recent PBS documentary (aired Oct - Nov, 2012 in most major TV markets) of the same title. The doc......more

Goodreads review by Beth

What an interesting and eye opening book on our election process. How on earth we can pose ourselves, as Americans, as being the world's democracy when our election process looks like this, I just do not know. A must read for everyone, and then more so, we really need to look at grassroots efforts t......more