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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Voting Rights Act, Help America Vote Act, Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, Federal Election Campaign Act, Federal Contested Election Act, Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act, Tillman Act of 1907, Universal Right to Vote by Mail Act, Federal Corrupt Practices Act, National Voter Registration Act of 1993, Richard Winger, Independent Expenditure, Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment Act, Voting Accessibility for the Elderly and Handicapped Act. Excerpt:The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 ( BCRA , McCain Feingold Act , Pub.L. 107-155, 116 Stat. 81, enacted March 27, 2002, H.R. 2356) is United States federal law that amended the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, which regulates the financing of political campaigns . Its chief sponsors were Senators Russell Feingold (D -WI ) and John McCain (R -AZ ). The law became effective on 6 November 2002, and the new legal limits became effective on January 1, 2003. As noted in McConnell v. Federal Election Commission , a United States Supreme Court ruling on the BCRA, the Act was designed to address two issues: It is ironic that the legislation is known as "McCain-Feingold" because the Senate version is not the bill that became law. Instead, the companion legislation, H.R. 2356 -- introduced by Rep. Christopher Shays (R-CT), is the version that became law. Shays-Meehan was originally introduced as H.R. 380. Legal disputes Campaign finance reform Provisions of the legislation were challenged as unconstitutional by a group of plaintiffs led by then-Senate Majority Whip Mitch McConnell , a long-time opponent of the bill. President Bush signed the law despite "reservations about the constitutionality of the broad ban on issue advertising." He appeared to expect that the Supreme Court would overturn some of its key pr... ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Instant-Runoff Voting, Irv Implementations in the United States, History and Use of Instant-Runoff Voting, Optional Preferential Voting. Excerpt:Instant-runoff voting was invented around 1870 by the American architect W. R. Ware . Today it is in use at a national level to elect the Australian House of Representatives , the Fijian House of Representatives and the President of Ireland . In Australia it is also used for elections to the legislative assemblies (lower houses ) of all states and territories except Tasmania and the Australian Capital Territory , and for the Tasmanian Legislative Council (upper house ). IRV is also used for municipal elections in various places in Australia, the United States, and New Zealand . Because of its relationship to the Single Transferable Vote (STV) system, IRV is used for by-elections in a some jurisdictions that use STV for ordinary parliamentary elections, such as the Republic of Ireland . IRV is known by different names in the various countries in which it is used. It is also known as the 'Alternative Vote', 'Ranked Choice Voting', 'Preferential Voting', and the 'Hare system'. The last three of these names may be misleading, because IRV is only one of a number of forms of preferential voting systems, and because the precise system known as 'instant-runoff voting' was invented by Ware rather than Thomas Hare . History Instant-runoff voting is based on the Single Transferable Vote electoral system , invented independently by Thomas Hare in 1857 and Carl Andrae in 1855. Unlike IRV, the Single Transferable Vote was designed as a form of proportional representation involving multi-seat constituencies , and today STV is used in a number of countries, including Australia, the Republic of Ireland and Malta . William Robert Ware, the founder of t... ... Read more

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Political Participation. A Study of the Participation by Negroes in the Electoral and Political Process in 10 Southern States since passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Government Printing Office Washington DC 1968. Black cover with white lettering. A report of the United States Commission on Civil Rights 1968. Softbound ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more