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The Myth of Voter Suppression: The Left's Assault on Clean Elections Kindle Edition

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What’s the real threat to democracy? The Myth of Voter Suppression exposes the lies about American elections.

“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

In the whirlwind of misinformation, deception, and the high-stakes drama of elections, buckle up for the unfiltered truth delivered in The Myth of Voter Suppression.

The book reveals that “voter suppression” is an empty soundbite lacking evidence in modern times, while page after page documents scores of adjudicated voter fraud cases that not only overturned election outcomes but led to criminal convictions.

Arm yourself with the irrefutable facts this election year and delve into the shadowy underworld of dark money outfits like Soros and Arabella, who bankroll the voter suppression hysteria industrial complex.

The Left’s smear of voter ID and other election integrity measures as “Jim Crow 2.0” crumbles under the weight of evidence that in states embracing such laws, voter turnout soars.

Uncover the details behind Joe Biden’s executive order weaponizing federal agencies in a partisan Get-out-the-Vote blitz akin to a nationalized Tammany Hall 2.0.

“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,” former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli says.

Syndicated columnist Debra J. Saunders writes, “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.”

As America stares down the barrel of evolving election security threats, The Myth of Voter Suppression is a must-read to cut through the noise with unapologetic truth every street-smart voter must wield. Don't just read—seize the truth, stand against deception, and become a guardian of election integrity.

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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.

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"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 andcriticallysolutions 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.

"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

"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 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.

"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 --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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"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 andcriticallysolutions 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. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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Fred Lucas is the Manager of the Investigative Reporting Project at The Daily Signal. He is an award-winning journalist and veteran White House correspondent who has written and reported for Fox News, Newsweek, National Review, History Magazine Quarterly, The Washington Examiner, Newsmax, TheBlaze, Townhall, The Federalist, The National Interest, The American Spectator, The American Conservative, and other outlets. Before going to Washington, he reported on state capitals in Kentucky and Connecticut. He earned his MS at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and BA at Western Kentucky University. He lives in Northern Virginia with his wife, Basia.

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donald a.

excellent primer on electoral politics

Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2024

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I recommend this book to anyone wanting to understand why the mechanics of the electoral process is so important and how honest attempts to clean up elections have been thwarted by demagoguery, bogus charges and outright fraud. As well, this book is a clearly written history of election law. I recommend! Don

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roman

This book should be a mandatory reading list for all high schools

Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2022

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No matter what side of the political spectrum you are on - you will enjoy this book. Fred has the ability to connect US history to our current election integrity issues, making this book a page turner.

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C. H. Cobb

Lucas explodes the myths with hard facts

Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2023

Fred Lucas has the deep journalistic experience that qualifies him to write this book; his expertise is evident on every page. 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? What becomes clear in the book is that not everyone has the same desire for fair and accurate elections. Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation, puts a real zinger in the foreword on page xiii: “That’s the Left’s real fear here: not that election integrity laws are evil, but that they are effective.”

The need to secure the vote in a day of bitter political divisions is crucial. Some on the Left allege that any implementation of effective voter identification laws is actually a surreptitious attempt to suppress the vote of the poor, the under-privileged, and minorities. Such a charge deserves to be examined carefully and closely: Lucas does just that. His treatment of the subject is open handed in one respect: he exposes cheating on both the Democrat and Republican sides. It is the practice of the Left (which I must admit is generally Democrat) to oppose any attempt to secure the integrity of elections, calling such attempts “voter suppression.” Lucas coins a rather clumsy term he uses repeatedly to label these opponents: the “voter suppression hysteria industrial complex.”

The book is written in two parts. Part 1 provides a history of the ways and means of fraud in elections, as well as legislative attempts to secure the vote. Lucas’ statement in the Introduction sets the tone and direction of the book: “A war is being fought in this country. The battlefields are Congress, in state legislative chambers, and in the courts. At stake are American democracy and the integrity of elections. The two warring narratives overlap—voter fraud vs. voter suppression—and both have historical legitimacies. But regarding the current times, only one narrative has facts to support it. The other has only emotion and inflammatory rhetoric” [xxii].

Chapter 1 explores the historical linkage between fraud and suppression. As he does repeatedly, Lucas demonstrates that legislative attempts to secure the vote since the bipartisan Voting Rights Act of 1965 have generally resulted in higher, not lower, turnouts—even among minorities.

In Chapter 2, Lucas walks through the data and statistics from Arizona, Florida, Georgia, and Texas, exposing the lies that have been spun about “voter suppression” in those states. During President Biden’s January 2022 trip to Atlanta, Biden made the claim that Georgia’s efforts to put protections on the integrity of the vote were actually efforts to suppress the vote. Biden claimed, “It’s no longer about who gets to vote; it’s about making it harder to vote… It’s not hyperbole; this is a fact.” Lucas responds firmly, supplying data to back up his response to Biden’s claim: “It’s neither hyperbole nor fact. It’s demonstrably false” [31].

The author examines the data, in Chapter 3, regarding the historical voting practices of minorities to demonstrate that state-level voter ID laws have not negatively affected minority groups. Chapter 4 reveals the political forces arrayed against such common-sense efforts as purging the voter registration roles of people who have died or who have moved into a different district. Part 1 concludes with Chapter 5 detailing historical examples of the methods and attempts that have been aimed at tampering with an election.

Part 2 studies various aspects of the 2020 election. Lucas does not necessarily believe the election was stolen. On page 94 he says, “Although the full story of the 2020 election hasn’t been told, subsequent investigations have provided noteworthy discoveries. Trump has overplayed the significance of each new discovery as absolute proof that he was the real winner—which the discoveries don’t prove.”

The anomalies of the 2020 election are explored in Chapter 6. Chapter 7 details various Democratic legislative attempts at the federal level that would make election fraud easier to commit. Chapter 8 exposes President Biden’s attempts to wrest the regulation of elections from the states to the federal government (whereas Article I, Section 4, Clause 1 of the US Constitution grants that power to the states).

Lucas examines Stacy Abrams in Chapter 9, and her multitudinous claims to the effect that the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election was stolen from her. Lucas shows that she has enjoyed a rather lucrative career making such claims. “Follow the money” is the essence of Chapter 10, as Lucas uncovers the various organizations funding the opposition to voter identification and election integrity laws. Spoiler alert: they are all on the Left.

The threads Lucas has traced in the book find their summary in the Conclusion, entitled “Stopping Tammany Hall 2.0.” He argues that legislative reform must happen at the level of individual states, and he explores several efforts that are underway.

My copy of The Myth of Voter Suppression has 453 endnotes, each providing documentation enabling the reader to go back to the original sources to substantiate the factual claims presented in the book. Lucas concludes with this thought: “History shows there have always been demagogues resisting changes to bring more integrity to elections. It’s important the public arm itself with the facts—both historical and contemporary. This is the only way to combat the lies of the new political machine” [178].

For the citizen who wants to arm himself or herself with the facts, The Myth of Voter Suppression is a good place to start. Five stars, highly recommended.

[Full disclosure: I received a free PDF copy of the book from the author for the purposes of review. I was not compensated in any way for this review.]

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Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2023

Well written and through you researched. This is a must read for any serious social science researcher. - PhD sociology Penn State

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JN

Overview of election history, fraud, and law, through 2020 and on.

Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2022

I've been avoiding books about election corruption because it's so clear that it's happening that the sick feeling about it doesn't exactly drive me to read books that show, yet again, that indeed it is happening and to a horrible extent. With that in mind, I can't compare this to other books on the topic, as I avoid them.

I appreciate this book for going back to show the historical response to voting issues, the subsequent voting laws, and comments by people who had one belief back in the day but now hold to doing the opposite. That helps anchor the book in historical context, which is important because of the way the left uses broad, vague, and redefined language to confuse people on what's gone on in the past and what we've done in response. There's also value in nailing down the semantic issues, clearing up definitions and restating what laws are already on the books. The author provides a good overview for the reader to get a sense of voting history.

By stating the current narrative, and then showing how it isn't true through detailed explanation and proof, the author does a good job giving the reader a good response to anyone tossing about talking points they've heard unaware of what's reality.

As always, reading details about the 2020 election makes me sick to my stomach; the fraud was so blatant, and the author lays it out clearly not just for that election, but for some previous elections. It's hard not to feel a little hopeless at times, particularly as we live in the aftermath of that 2020 election and know the real price the nation and world paid for that fraud.

The best value of this book is in its historical rootedness. There are no shortage of books dedicated just to 2020, but this one gives the reader context, and a chance to see the history of election, election fraud, and subsequent election law. If you read this book, you'll have a good sense of election history, not just the mess that was the 2020 election. Because of the history inclusion, this book will last beyond the "current events" scope and serve as general overview plus 2020-specific.

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