TY - BOOK AU - Wang,Tova Andrea ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - The politics of voter suppression: defending and expanding Americans' right to vote AV - JK1976 .W36 2012eb U1 - 324.60973 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Ithaca PB - Cornell University Press KW - Elections KW - United States KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Corrupt practices KW - Voter registration KW - Suffrage KW - Voting KW - Politics and government KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - "A Century Foundation book."; Includes bibliographical references and index; The voter inclusion principle -- The early years of vote suppression -- Conditions and consequences of the Voting Rights Act -- Vote suppression goes national and Republican -- The battle over Motor Voter -- The election of 2000 and its fallout -- A slight upswing -- Effects on election outcomes -- How to increase participation -- Epilogue : what citizens can do; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2011; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries N2 - "Tova Wang explains how, across the twentieth century, the issue of access to the ballot was transformed from a largely practical matter of electoral advantage into an ideological difference between the Democrat and Republican Parties."--Publisher's Web site UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10583992 ER -