Thank You For Voting: The Maddening, Enlightening, Inspiring Truth About Voting in America

by Erin Geiger Smith Narrated by Lisa Cordileone

Overview

In this concise, lively look at the past, present, and future of voting, a journalist examines the long and continuing fight for voting equality, why so few Americans today vote, and innovative ways to educate and motivate them; included are checklists of what to do before election day to prepare to vote and encourage others.

Voting is a prized American right and a topic of debate from the earliest days of the country. Yet in the 2016 presidential election, about 40 percent of Americans-and half of the country's young adults - didn't vote. Why do so many Americans choose not to vote, and what can we do about it?*

The problem, Erin Geiger Smith contends, is a lack of understanding about our electoral system and a need to make voting more accessible. Thank You for Voting is her eye-opening look at the voting process, starting with the Framers' perspective, through the Equal Protection amendment and the Voting Rights Act, to the present and simple actions individuals can take to increase civic participation in local, state, and national elections.

Geiger Smith expands our knowledge about our democracy-including women's long fight to win the vote, attempts to suppress newly enfranchised voters' impact, state prohibitions against felons voting, charges of voter fraud and voter suppression, and other vital issues. In a conversational tone, she explains topics that can confuse even the most informed voters: polling, news literacy, gerrymandering and the Electoral College. She also explores how age, race, and socioeconomic factors influence turnout.

Ultimately, Thank You for Voting offers hope. Geiger Smith challenges corporations to promote voting, and offers examples of how companies like Patagonia and Walmart have taken up the task in a non-partisan way. And she reveals how get-out-the-vote movements-such as television star Yara Shahidi's voting organization, Michelle Obama's When We All Vote campaign, and on-the-ground young activists-innovatively use technology and grassroots techniques to energize first-time voters.*

Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

For those interested in the history of voting and the fight for the ballot, Thank You For Voting by Erin Geiger Smith is a must-read.

This book offers a comprehensive look at the past, present, and future of voting in America, including the ongoing struggle for equality in voting and the innovative ways to educate and motivate voters.

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Editorial Reviews

AUGUST 2020 - AudioFile

Lisa Cordileone uses an appropriate pace and cadence in narrating this accessible and highly informed audiobook. She does a fine job navigating the thickets of politics and partisanship, and nicely captures the author’s engaged reportorial voice. She also takes the right tone—explanatory yet interrogative—for a text that spans the centuries, with excellent sections on the Know Nothings and gerrymandering, as well as backstories on the passing of amendments on voting issues. A number of proposals for changing the Electoral College are put forward. But the author stops short of endorsing any of the various suggestions for drastic change. Her focus is to invigorate the process—to prod folks to the polls. This audiobook provides a primer on ways to get out the vote. A.D.M. © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine

AUGUST 2020 - AudioFile

Lisa Cordileone uses an appropriate pace and cadence in narrating this accessible and highly informed audiobook. She does a fine job navigating the thickets of politics and partisanship, and nicely captures the author’s engaged reportorial voice. She also takes the right tone—explanatory yet interrogative—for a text that spans the centuries, with excellent sections on the Know Nothings and gerrymandering, as well as backstories on the passing of amendments on voting issues. A number of proposals for changing the Electoral College are put forward. But the author stops short of endorsing any of the various suggestions for drastic change. Her focus is to invigorate the process—to prod folks to the polls. This audiobook provides a primer on ways to get out the vote. A.D.M. © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID:	2940172720291
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	06/23/2020
Edition description:	Unabridged

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