Review
"Throughout the book, Lucas systematically documents the decrepit condition of many states' voter rolls, which are replete with ineligible, dead, and double voters. He tackles the politically charged issue of ballot harvesting and trafficking, in which individuals gather and submit other voters' ballots. ... Lucas pulls no punches, arguing that genuine voter suppression—and its cousin, voter fraud—date back to Aaron Burr, New York's Tammany Hall, and the origins of the Democratic Party." - Hayden Ludwig, Capital Research Center
"The Myth of Voter Suppression is an exhaustively documented treatment of the burning political question of the day: how can we ensure that each vote in an election has been cast by a legitimate, qualified voter without making the voting process so onerous that it keeps people from the polls? ... For the citizen who wants to arm himself or herself with the facts, The Myth of Voter Suppression is a good place to start." - C.H. Cobb, The Thoughtspot
"Well researched, well documented, and a wealth of resources. ... The Myth of Voter Suppression is a great book for discussion groups, newscasters, political science students and candidates on both sides to read and discuss." - Fran Lewis, Just Reviews
"He examines the various bills introduced and occasionally passed by one house of the current Congress that would essentially federalize control of elections (Lucas sees that as a dangerous mistake). And he presents an in-depth study of all of the various groups behind the claims of "voter suppression" and who's funding them - including some of the biggest charitable foundations in America." - Glynn Young, Faith, Fiction, Friends.
"The left insists every election integrity measure such as voter ID is 'voter suppression' or worse, 'Jim Crow 2.0.' This book by journalist Fred Lucas not only shows why that's wrong, but it details the efforts by Biden, Pelosi, and other Democrats that would federalize and ultimately corrupt the election process." -Congresswoman Claudia Tenney, co-chair of the House Election Integrity Caucus
"Fred Lucas provides a battlespace assessment in the Voting Wars. This is a roadmap for anyone who wants to understand why the Left has poured billions of dollars into transforming our elections into something we wouldn't recognize a decade ago." -J. Christian Adams, President of the Public Interest Legal Foundation
"This is the book Eric Swalwell doesn't want you to read. Fred Lucas takes a clear-eyed look at the 2020 election, what states did right and what they did wrong. If the right people pay attention, maybe 2024 won't be a total mess." -Debra J. Saunders, syndicated columnist and fellow at the Discovery Institute
"Fred Lucas cuts through the name-calling to zero in on both the documented problems in American elections and the effectiveness of recent solutions. Americans tend to agree on a commonsense approach to elections, and purveyors of commonsense will find Fred's book to be loaded easy-to-understand analysis andcriticallysolutions to help improve the cornerstone of our republic: our elections." -Ken Cuccinelli, former Virginia Attorney General and former Acting U.S. Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security. National Chairman of the Election Transparency Initiative.
"The Myth of Voter Suppression exposes the imbalance between the voter suppression and voter fraud controversies. Although Lucas cites examples of voter suppression in our past, today, voter suppression is a myth. ... This is a well-researched book on a very important subject. I highly recommend it." - James Best, Tempest at Dawn.
From the Author
From the Foreword by Kevin Roberts, President of The Heritage Foundation
Frederick Douglass argued that "the liberties of the American people were dependent upon the Ballot-box, the Jury-box, and the Cartridge-box." Conservatives have grown accustomed to political fights over the latter two. Everywhere progressives dominate, from Blue States to college campuses, the right to bear arms and the rights to equal justice and due process are under threat. But historically, even most conservatives have taken the integrity of American elections for granted. ...
It is probably not a coincidence that voter fraud is given the kid-gloves treatment by the American media since its most notorious practitioners have always been on the political left: the Long Machine in Louisiana, the Daley Machine in Chicago, the Curley Machine in Boston, the Pendergast Machine in Kansas City, and Tammany Hall in New York. Were voter fraud and machine corruption staples of conservative politics, you can bet America's elite institutions would take a less sanguine view of it. Characters like Huey Long, James Michael Curley, and Boss Tweed would be remembered not as Robin Hoods and "rascal kings" but as irredeemable, predatory thugs.
The political press tries to avoid scrutiny of their hypocrisy by adopting a smug schizophrenia on the issue: wryly romanticizing liberals' long, documented, and oft-prosecuted perpetration of voter fraud, while also insisting that it never happens and has never happened and conservatives who say otherwise are lying and racist and trying to steal elections.
Both of these narratives cannot be true. Fred V. Lucas has proven both to be false. The Myth of Voter Suppression marshals years of investigative research and reporting into a timely and definitive guide to American election integrity and its enemies.
Lucas traces the Left's history of corrupting Douglass's "ballot box." He removes partisan historians' rose-colored—or, who are we kidding, blue-tinted—glasses and uncovers the truth: campaigns of voter fraud were rarely good-hearted mischief. They were almost always racketeering conspiracies against the American people, almost always preying on the rights of poor and minority communities, and almost always in the service of Democratic Party elites.
Those campaigns also never ended. As Lucas demonstrates in the chapters that follow, the Left's election-fraud tactics may have evolved over the years, but their blithe contempt for election integrity is as strong as it ever was. ...
The real question is, why does the Democratic Party oppose free, fair, and credible elections?
The Myth of Voter Suppression answers that question. It is more than an eye-opening history or a tightly-argued policy brief. It is a concise, accessible, indispensable handbook to the most important challenge facing American democracy today.
From the Inside Flap
From the Foreword by Kevin Roberts, President of The Heritage Foundation
Frederick Douglass argued that "the liberties of the American people were dependent upon the Ballot-box, the Jury-box, and the Cartridge-box." Conservatives have grown accustomed to political fights over the latter two. Everywhere progressives dominate, from Blue States to college campuses, the right to bear arms and the rights to equal justice and due process are under threat. But historically, even most conservatives have taken the integrity of American elections for granted. ...
It is probably not a coincidence that voter fraud is given the kid-gloves treatment by the American media since its most notorious practitioners have always been on the political left: the Long Machine in Louisiana, the Daley Machine in Chicago, the Curley Machine in Boston, the Pendergast Machine in Kansas City, and Tammany Hall in New York. Were voter fraud and machine corruption staples of conservative politics, you can bet America's elite institutions would take a less sanguine view of it. Characters like Huey Long, James Michael Curley, and Boss Tweed would be remembered not as Robin Hoods and "rascal kings" but as irredeemable, predatory thugs.
The political press tries to avoid scrutiny of their hypocrisy by adopting a smug schizophrenia on the issue: wryly romanticizing liberals' long, documented, and oft-prosecuted perpetration of voter fraud, while also insisting that it never happens and has never happened and conservatives who say otherwise are lying and racist and trying to steal elections.
Both of these narratives cannot be true. Fred V. Lucas has proven both to be false. The Myth of Voter Suppression marshals years of investigative research and reporting into a timely and definitive guide to American election integrity and its enemies.
Lucas traces the Left's history of corrupting Douglass's "ballot box." He removes partisan historians' rose-colored—or, who are we kidding, blue-tinted—glasses and uncovers the truth: campaigns of voter fraud were rarely good-hearted mischief. They were almost always racketeering conspiracies against the American people, almost always preying on the rights of poor and minority communities, and almost always in the service of Democratic Party elites.
Those campaigns also never ended. As Lucas demonstrates in the chapters that follow, the Left's election-fraud tactics may have evolved over the years, but their blithe contempt for election integrity is as strong as it ever was. ...
The real question is, why does the Democratic Party oppose free, fair, and credible elections?
The Myth of Voter Suppression answers that question. It is more than an eye-opening history or a tightly-argued policy brief. It is a concise, accessible, indispensable handbook to the most important challenge facing American democracy today.
From the Back Cover
"In the tradition of Tammany Hall and the Jim Crow era, Democrats are still bent on hastily bending and changing election laws to make it easier to wield power. Fred Lucas, a veteran Washington correspondent, details how the Biden-Pelosi agenda is attempting a federal takeover to wipe away states' clean election laws such as voter ID and undermine confidence in elections." -Mark Levin, host of Life, Liberty & Levin, #1 New York Times bestselling author
"The left insists every election integrity measure such as voter ID is 'voter suppression' or worse, 'Jim Crow 2.0.' This book by journalist Fred Lucas not only shows why that's wrong, but it details the efforts by Biden, Pelosi, and other Democrats that would federalize and ultimately corrupt the election process." -Congresswoman Claudia Tenney, co-chair of the House Election Integrity Caucus
"Fred Lucas provides a battlespace assessment in the Voting Wars. This is a roadmap for anyone who wants to understand why the Left has poured billions of dollars into transforming our elections into something we wouldn't recognize a decade ago." -J. Christian Adams, President of the Public Interest Legal Foundation
"This is the book Eric Swalwell doesn't want you to read. Fred Lucas takes a clear-eyed look at the 2020 election, what states did right and what they did wrong. If the right people pay attention, maybe 2024 won't be a total mess." -Debra J. Saunders, syndicated columnist and fellow at the Discovery Institute
"Fred Lucas cuts through the name-calling to zero in on both the documented problems in American elections and the effectiveness of recent solutions. Americans tend to agree on a commonsense approach to elections, and purveyors of commonsense will find Fred's book to be loaded easy-to-understand analysis andcriticallysolutions to help improve the cornerstone of our republic: our elections." -Ken Cuccinelli, former Virginia Attorney General and former Acting U.S. Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security. National Chairman of the Election Transparency Initiative.
