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Thank You for Voting: The Maddening, Enlightening, Inspiring Truth About Voting in America
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Author:
Erin Geiger Smith
Publisher:
Harper
Date:
June 23, 2020
In this concise 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.
What The Reviewers Say
Smith posits that the only voting problem we have in America is that not enough people do it. It’s an important topic, as her research shows that each generation votes at rates lower than the one before it.
Journalist Smith's debut serves as both a history of voting rights in the United States and an instructional tool for voters.
Smith serves up a youth-friendly—though by no means youth-restricted—guide to understanding not only one’s rights as a voter, but also such thorny constructs as how polls work (badly, too often) and how gerrymandering keeps districts that should go to one party going to the other instead.
Journalist Geiger Smith’s instructive debut combines a brisk history of voting rights in America with a comprehensive guide on how to vote, and how to convince others to do the same.
