Bibliograph

Five dollars and a pork chop sandwich, vote buying and the corruption of democracy, Mary Frances Berry

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Five dollars and a pork chop sandwich, vote buying and the corruption of democracy, Mary Frances Berry

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Five dollars and a pork chop sandwich

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Mary Frances Berry

Sub title

vote buying and the corruption of democracy

Summary

Though voting rights are fundamental to American democracy, felon disenfranchisement, voter identification laws, and hard-to-access polling locations with limited hours are only a few of the ways to suppress voter turnout. These methods of voter suppression are pernicious but, in this book, Berry focuses on forms of electoral corruption including vote-buying, vote-hauling, the abuse of absentee ballots, and other illegal practices by candidates and their middlemen, often in collusion with local election officials

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