{"product_id":"9780062934833","title":"Thank You for Voting : The Maddening, Enlightening, Inspiring Truth About Voting in America","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIf you want to celebrate your essential right as a citizen and encourage others to do the same,\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThank You for\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eVoting\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eprovides an engaging and concise tutorial of what it means to cast your ballotpast, present, and future. Read this book! (And be sure to vote.) Ann Patchett\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA concise, lively look at voting in America, including insights into why so few Americans today vote and innovative ways to educate and motivate themupdated with a new epilogue analyzing the 2020 election.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVoting is a prized American right. The 2018 midterm elections saw record turnoutmore than 110 million Americans cast ballots. Yet about half of those eligible did not participate. Why isnt voter turnout higher, and what can we do about it?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe problem, Erin Geiger Smith contends, is a lack of understanding about how our electoral system works and too little appreciation for the power of voting. To inspire action, she looks at the voting process from the Framers perspective through the Voting Rights Act to the present, examining the difficult and inspiring stories of how different groups got the right to vote, state prohibitions against felons voting, charges of fraud and suppression, and new methods to increase voter registration. She explains topics that confuse even the most informed voters: polling, news literacy, gerrymandering, and the Electoral College. And she explores how age, race, and socioeconomic factors influence turnout.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMost important, Geiger Smith outlines simple actions everyone should take to increase civic participation in elections, and reveals how innovative get-out-the-vote movements energize first-time voters. Informative and empoweringand with a new epilogue analyzing the 2020 election\u003cem\u003eThank You for Voting\u003c\/em\u003eis an essential call to the polls.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rye Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41191568179352,"sku":"9780062934833","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0064\/1368\/0730\/products\/9780062934833.jpg?v=1635167929","url":"https:\/\/ryebooks.co.uk\/products\/9780062934833","provider":"Rye Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}