Steal This Vote:

Andrew Gumbel
July 2005     ISBN: 1560256761

Steal This Vote recounts the distressing but colorful history of electoral manipulation in America from the framers of the constitution, through Boss Tweed's New York, the Daley machine in Chicago, to Election 2000 and beyond. It blames the defects of today's electoral system on a corrupted political environment created by both major parties, and on a large number of state and county election officials more interested in appearances than in the integrity of the democratic process.

This is a tale of votes bought, stolen, suppressed, lost, duplicated, assigned to dead people and pets, miscounted, thrown into rivers, and litigated all the way to the Supreme Court. It will change the way you look at American democracy.

Andrew Gumbel, an award-winning US correspondent for the Independent (London) and an author of celebrated books on London and Berlin, was one of the first journalists to bring the pitfalls of computer voting to public attention.