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Obama administration Attorney General Eric Holder spoke about the history of voting and offered his thoughts on how to combat voter suppression. Theodore’s Books and Long Island University i…

Authors Amber McReynolds (When Women Vote) and Jesse Wegman (Let the People Pick the President) discussed the 2020 presidential election and offered their thoughts on the need for mail-in vo…

Jay Weiner recalls the 2008 election for Minnesota’s U.S. Senate seat between Democrat Al Franken and Republican incumbent Norm Coleman and the subsequent eight-month ballot recount. Mr. Wei…

Roy Morris, Jr. discussed his book Fraud of the Century: Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the Stolen Election of 1876, published by Simon and Schuster. In 1876, New York Democrat Sam…

Abigail Thernstrom talked about the book she co-authored, Voting Rights--and Wrongs: The Elusive Quest for Racially Fair Elections, published by AEI Press. She argued that the 1965 Voting Ri…

Andrew Gumbel talked about his book Steal This Vote: Dirty Elections and the Rotten History of Democracy in America, published by Nation Books. Andrew Gumbel covered the 2000 election as U.…

John Fund talked about the flaws in the the U.S. voting system that increase the potential for voter fraud and the efforts made by actors in exploiting these flaws. He spoke on the role of l…

Panelists examined the early primary and caucus states and talked about the implications of the primary season being condensed. They also talked about the political ideologies of American vo…

Mr. Saltman and Mr. Rubin spoke about electronic voting technology, efforts to improve election procedures, past problems with voting machines and registration programs, and their books on t…

Panelists talked about election procedures, the disputes arising over the 200 presidential elections, efforts to improve the accuracy of election results, and voter access to polling places …

The Southern Festival of Books is an annual three-day event held in downtown Nashville, Tennessee at the War Memorial Plaza and the Nashville Public Library. Scenes of the festival were show…

Author Steven Hill discussed his book, Fixing Elections: The Failure of America’s Winner Take All Politics, published by Routledge. In it, he explores the various ways in which local and pre…