[EL] New book on positive voting rights

[Josh Douglas]

Hi everyone,

In case you haven't seen it yet, I wanted to let list serv members know
about my new book, just released, on positive voting rights reforms -- the
good news in election law.

*Vote for US: How to Take Back Our Elections and Change the Future of
Voting*
<https://www.amazon.com/Vote-US-Elections-Change-Future/dp/1633885100>tells
the stories of Democracy Champions from all over who are working to make
our election system more inclusive and convenient. The Appendix includes a
list of organizations in every state working on these issues.

I've pasted the Amazon
<https://www.amazon.com/Vote-US-Elections-Change-Future/dp/1633885100>
description below. Rick has also kindly let me guest blog on the Election
Law Blog about it this week. (First post here
<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=104599>, second post here
<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=104601>, and third post to come tomorrow.)

Note that the publisher gave it a pretty friendly price. :)

Best,

Josh

Vote for US: How to Take Back Our Elections and Change the Future of Voting

*An expert on US election law presents an encouraging assessment of current
efforts to make our voting system more accessible, reliable, and effective.*

In contrast to the anxiety surrounding our voting system, with stories
about voter suppression and manipulation, there are actually quite a few
positive initiatives toward voting rights reform. Professor Joshua A.
Douglas, an expert on our electoral system, examines these encouraging
developments in this inspiring book about how regular Americans are working
to take back their democracy, one community at a time.

Told through the narratives of those working on positive voting rights
reforms, Douglas includes chapters on expanding voter eligibility, easing
voter registration rules, making voting more convenient, enhancing
accessibility at the polls, providing voters with more choices, finding
ways to comply with voter ID rules, giving redistricting back to the
voters, pushing back on big money through local and state efforts, using
journalism to make the system more accountable, and improving civics
education. At the end, the book includes an appendix that lists
organizations all over the country working on these efforts.

Unusually accessible for a lay audience and thoroughly researched, this
book gives anyone fed up with our current political environment the ideas
and tools necessary to affect change in their own communities.

Joshua A. Douglas
Thomas P. Lewis Professor of Law
University of Kentucky College of Law
620 S. Limestone
Lexington, KY 40506
859-257-4935
joshuadouglas at uky.edu
Twitter: *@JoshuaADouglas <https://twitter.com/JoshuaADouglas>*

*   Find me at www.JoshuaADouglas.com <http://www.JoshuaADouglas.com>. *
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