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America Votes!: Challenges to Modern Election Law and Voting Rights, 4th ed.

By Chris Dykes
The ABA's State and Local Government Law Section has recently published the fourth edition of America Votes!: Challenges to Modern  Election Law and Voting Rights, which is now in the library's collection on the new title's shelf (KF4886.A86). The twenty-one chapter book is edited by Benjamin E. Griffith and John Hardin Young, and is separated into five parts. Each chapter is authored by attorneys or legal scholars who are experts in the field.

The first part, "Voter Qualification and Participation," begins with a discussion of immigration, citizenship, and the 2020 census, the connection between Florida felon re-enfranchisement law and poverty, strict construction of voter registration laws (Georgia's 2018 election experience), Native American voting rights, millennials and electoral access in 2018-2020, and a holistic approach to assisting minority language voters. The second part covers the voting process and explores topics such as voter ID laws, cybersecurity threats to election systems, voter fraud claims, and Maine's ranked-choice voting, among others. The section on voting rights litigation covers criminal enforcement, voting dilution, digitized election administration, and the impact of Shelby County v. Holder on 2018 and 2020 election cycles. The chapters in the remaining sections explore issues related to audits and recounts and redistricting. An index and table of cases are included in this book.

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