In Stealing Elections (Encounter Books, 2004), John Fund takes the reader on a national tour of voter fraud scandals ranging from rural states like Texas and Mississippi to big cities such as Philadelphia and Milwaukee. He explores dark episodes such as the way "vote brokers" stole a mayoral election in Miami in 1998 by tampering with 4,700 absentee ballots. He shows how, in the aftermath of the Motor Voter Law of 1993, Californians used mail-in forms to get absentee ballots for fictitious people and pets, while in St. Louis it was discovered that voter rolls included 13,000 more names than the U.S. Census listed as the total number of adults in the city.
Stealing Elections gives us a chilling portrait of electoral vulnerability in the 2004 presidential election. John Fund describes how a lethal combination of bureaucratic bungling and ballot rigging has put our democracy at risk.
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Sunday, November 22, 2009
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