The Vote Collectors Second Edition

Author : Michael Graff
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469679655
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vote Collectors, Second Edition written by Michael Graff and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2024-02-16 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In November 2018, Baptist preacher Mark Harris beat the odds, narrowly fending off a blue wave in the sprawling Ninth District of North Carolina. But word soon got around that something fishy was going on in rural Bladen County. At the center of the mess was a local political operative named McCrae Dowless. Dowless had learned the ins and outs of the absentee ballot system from Democrats before switching over to the Republican Party. Bladen County's vote-collecting cottage industry made national headlines, led to multiple election fraud indictments, toppled North Carolina GOP leadership, and left hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians without congressional representation for nearly a year. In The Vote Collectors, Michael Graff and Nick Ochsner tell the story of the political shenanigans in Bladen County, exposing the shocking vulnerability of local elections and explaining why our present systems are powerless to monitor and prevent fraud. In their hands, this tale of rural corruption becomes a fascinating narrative of the long clash of racism and electioneering—and a larger story about the challenges to democracy in the rural South. In their preface to this second edition, Graff and Ochsner bring the story up to date, as accusations of voter fraud continue to pervade our national discourse. The Vote Collectors shows the reality of election stealing in one southern county, where democracy was undermined the old-fashioned way: one absentee ballot at a time.

Author : Michael Graff
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469665573
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vote Collectors written by Michael Graff and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In November 2018, Baptist preacher Mark Harris beat the odds, narrowly fending off a blue wave in the sprawling Ninth District of North Carolina. But word soon got around that something fishy was going on in rural Bladen County. At the center of the mess was a local political operative named McCrae Dowless. Dowless had learned the ins and outs of the absentee ballot system from Democrats before switching over to the Republican Party. Bladen County's vote-collecting cottage industry made national headlines, led to multiple election fraud indictments, toppled North Carolina GOP leadership, and left hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians without congressional representation for nearly a year. In The Vote Collectors, Michael Graff and Nick Ochsner tell the story of the political shenanigans in Bladen County, exposing the shocking vulnerability of local elections and explaining why our present systems are powerless to monitor and prevent fraud. In their hands, this tale of rural corruption becomes a fascinating narrative of the long clash of racism and electioneering—and a larger story about the challenges to democracy in the rural South. At a time rife with accusations of election fraud, The Vote Collectors shows the reality of election stealing in one southern county, where democracy was undermined the old-fashioned way: one absentee ballot at a time.

Author : Michael Graff (Journalist)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781469665580
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vote Collectors written by Michael Graff (Journalist) and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In November 2018, Baptist preacher Mark Harris beat the odds, narrowly fending off a blue wave in the sprawling Ninth District of North Carolina. But word soon got around that something fishy was going on in rural Bladen County. At the center of the mess was a local political operative named McCrae Dowless. Dowless had learned the ins and outs of the absentee ballot system from Democrats before switching over to the Republican Party. Bladen County's vote-collecting cottage industry made national headlines, led to multiple election fraud indictments, toppled North Carolina GOP leadership, and left hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians without congressional representation for nearly a year. In The Vote Collectors, Michael Graff and Nick Ochsner tell the story of the political shenanigans in Bladen County, exposing the shocking vulnerability of local elections and explaining why our present systems are powerless to monitor and prevent fraud. In their hands, this tale of rural corruption becomes a fascinating narrative of the long clash of racism and electioneering-and a larger story about the challenges to democracy in the rural South. At a time rife with accusations of election fraud, The Vote Collectors shows the reality of election stealing in one southern county, where democracy was undermined the old-fashioned way: one absentee ballot at a time"--

Author : Jock Lauterer
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807874116
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wouldn't Take Nothin' For My Journey Now written by Jock Lauterer and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-08-25 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the isolated North Carolina mountains, old-timers relive their lives in bits and pieces. They tell of a time when working together as a family was fun, when pleasures were simple, and when a handshake made a deal. Lauterer introduces thirty-five mountain folk whose memories and experiences bridge two centuries, a generation whose moral values and skills are fast becoming obsolete, a people who give the South and American its deeply rooted heritage. Originally published in 1980. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Author : Dale Whittington
Publisher : Chapel Hill : University of Carolina Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book High Hopes for High Tech written by Dale Whittington and published by Chapel Hill : University of Carolina Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: North Carolina is one of the states that specifically targeted industrial development efforts toward the microelectronic industry and, in 1981, established an independent, nonprofit organization, the Microelectronics Center of North Carolina, dedicated to educational and research activity in this field of technology. This volume examines some of the planning and policy issues raised by the state's efforts to attract the industry and details the objectives of its policy. Originally published 1986. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Author : Michael Waldman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982198931
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fight to Vote written by Michael Waldman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On cover, the word "right" has an x drawn over the letter "r" with the letter "f" above it.

Author : William Way
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
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Download or read book The Clinchfield Railroad written by William Way and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the building of the Clinchfield Railroad reflects the dominant elements that have shaped the economic history of an important section of the southeastern states. It is the history of continuous efforts in a venture that was to be the backbone of a gigantic commercial system but that attained only the proportions of a short, highly specialized, local line. Originally published in 1931. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Author : Samuel Huntington Hobbs (Jr.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book North Carolina Today written by Samuel Huntington Hobbs (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In words and photographs, the authors provide a picture of North Carolina as it was and as the authors envision it might be tomorrow when the people of the state have learned how to put their resources to the best use. Written especially for teenagers, it includes sections on natural wealth, the patterns of agriculture and industry, and the state's institutional wealth. Originally published in 1947. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Author : O. M. McPherson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469641763
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indians of North Carolina written by O. M. McPherson and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1913 the State of North Carolina officially recognized Robeson County Indians as "Cherokees," a designation that went largely unnoticed by the Federal Government. When the same Indians petitioned for Federal recognition and assistance in 1915, the Senate tasked the Office of Indian Affairs to report on the "tribal rights and conditions" of those Robeson County Indians. Special Indian Agent Orlando McPherson, a Midwesterner who was in the final stages of a long career as a civil servant, was commissioned to investigate. The resulting federal report is essentially literature review in the guise of fact-finding. It relies heavily on Robeson county legislator Hamilton McMillan's musings on the relationship between Sir Walter Raleigh's Lost Colony and the Indians around Robeson County. The report reaches many erroneous conclusions, in part because it was based in an anthropological framework of white supremacy, segregation-era politics, and assumptions about racial "purity." In fact, later researchers would establish that the Lumbees, as Malinda Lowery writes, "are survivors from the dozens of tribes in that territory who established homes with the Native people, as well as free European and enslaved African settlers, who lived in what became their core homeland: the low-lying swamplands along the border of North and South Carolina." Excavations would later establish the presence of Native people in that homeland since at least 1000 A.D. Ironically, McPherson's murky colonial history connecting Lumbees to early colonial settlers was used to legitimize them and to deflect their categorization as African-Americans. The McPherson report documents one important phase of an Indian people's long path to self-determination and political recognition, a path that would designate them variously as Croatan, Cherokee Indians of Robeson County, Siouan Indians of the Lumber River, and finally, Lumbee--the title of their own choosing and the one we use today. A DOCSOUTH BOOK. This collaboration between UNC Press and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library brings classic works from the digital library of Documenting the American South back into print. DocSouth Books uses the latest digital technologies to make these works available in paperback and e-book formats. Each book contains a short summary and is otherwise unaltered from the original publication. DocSouth Books provide affordable and easily accessible editions to a new generation of scholars, students, and general readers.

Author : Great Britain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 808 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Statutes, Second Revised Edition written by Great Britain and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: