With so much misinformation and fake news out there regarding elections, this book is a must-read for everyone, and especially folks in election administration, public office, candidates, advocates, policy wonks, election geeks and members of the media in particular, who often get the details wrong.
I have spent my entire career in the field of elections, serving as chairman of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission and executive vice president of the International Foundation for Election Systems and have observed elections in many U.S. states and over 35 countries. This is a book that has been needed for a long time and details how elections are conducted in the United States at the local level.
Want to know how an absentee/mail ballots are handled? It’s in the book. Want to know how difficult is it to pick a new voting system? It’s in the book. Interested in voter registration, how poll workers are picked and trained, how signatures are checked on petitions? Want to know how elections failed? It is all in the book.
–Paul DeGregorio