Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Part I Voting State-by-State: What You Need to Know Now
1 The Two-Step "Recipe" for Voting 15
2 Moving Out of State, Missed an Election Cycle, or Off to College? An "Ingredient" List for Staying Registered 65
3 The Latest on Ballot Confusion and Voting Machine Clunkery 75
Part II Voting Is Not a Constitutional Right (It All Depends)
4 What Does the "Right" to Vote Even Mean? 89
5 Who Gets to Vote Legally in America 99
6 Key Ingredients to Electing a President (and What's the Electoral College, Anyway?) 107
7 Key Ingredients to Electing People to Congress 127
Part III Why Your Right to Vote Is in Danger Today
8 How Dug in Are Politicians? Gerrymandering and Limitless Terms for Congress 145
9 Does Your Vote Even Matter? Senate Malapportionment and Winner-Takes-All Vote Counting 157
10 Money in Politics 167
11 Voter Suppression and Voter Fraud: Myths or Realities? 181
12 Voter Misinformation: A Primer on Foreign Interference in US Presidential Elections 195
Conclusion 209
Acknowledgments 213
Appendix 215
State-by-State Registration Requirements 216
State-by-State Voter Identification Requirements 236
Same-Day Registration 253
State-by-State Voting Rights of Felons 256
How to Get on the Presidential Ballot 272
Notes 303
Index 319