FINAL

Review PPT
Gerrymandering/Red
Lining
Is Voter Fraud a Problem?

• < 1300 cases of voter fraud (approx. 2000-2020)

• Probation violation, Mistaken Citizenship Status, Clerical Errors, Lack of
Voter Confidence, Still Registered in Previous State
• Few cases of malicious conspiracy
• Secretary of State of GA claims 1000 cases (2020)
• 7 Million Votes; 77 Cases identified (0.0011%)
• Secretary of State Kemp targeted voter registration orgs (2012)
Election Fraud

• Ballot Harvesting
• Campaign/Agency collects &
delivers absentee & mail-in ballots
• Robocalls & disinformation
• Substandard voting machine
maintenance
• Throwing away voter registrations
• Violating campaign finance laws
Voter Suppression
in GA 2021
A. How Georgia’s voting law
works (SB 202), AJC 5/2021
B. How Republican States Are
Expanding Their Power Over
Elections, NYT 6/2021
C. Georgia Senate GOP passes map
to retain Republican majority
AP 11/2021
 Voter Disenfranchisement & SCOTUS
Voter Shelby County v
Brnovich vs DNC 2020
Disenfranchisement Holder 2013
• Systemic difficulty of • End of Pre-clearance: • More ballot
certain demographics States with histories collection limitations
to exercise the right of racialized • Toss Absentee ballots
to vote (suffrage). disenfranchisement sent to wrong
no longer require precinct
Federal approval to
change local election
laws
General & Primary
Elections
Primary (Closed or Open): An election held before the general
election. Party members vote on which candidate they want
to earn the party's nomination.
2016 Primary Electorate Statistics

Caucuses:

FEC: Independent regulatory agency that enforces Fed.

Election laws
 "Civic engagement means working to make a
difference in the civic life of our communities and
Civic developing the combination of knowledge, skills,
values and motivation to make that difference.
Engagement: It means promoting the quality of life in a community,
through both political and non-political processes."
Beyond
Election Day -Civic Responsibility and Higher Education, edited by
Thomas Ehrlich, published by Oryx Press, 2000.
Primary Source!
"I have already intimated to you the
danger of parties in the State, with
particular reference to founding them
on geographical discriminations. Let
me now take a more comprehensive
view, and warn you, in the most
solemn manner, against the baneful
effects of the spirit of party, generally."

-President George Washington, 1796

 "Group of people with
broad common interest
who organize to win
elections, control
government, and thereby
influence government
policies."

Ex DNC, RNC

Political Parties
 Why do third
Fusionist Party
parties begin/end?

History of US
Political
Political Realignments
1930s-1990s
Party Switch

Parties
Overton Window
Political Science Typology
 What makes you believe or
disbelieve something's
authenticity?
Primary
Source What influences or alters our
Analysis & perceptions?

Bias:
What is bias and how do we
measure it? (Harvard
University: Project Implicit)
Impacts of Biased Media

Media and Assess: How might this

impact perspective?
Ownership

Do Political Ads Short term: Fear

Actually Work?

People are more

Misleading motivated to react
when perpetrator is

headlines Black
 • Civil Liberties: Protection
from unwarranted government
intervention.
• Civil Rights: Describes
Vocabulary government's duty to protect citizens.

How are these concepts...

• Complimentary?
• Oppositional?
"Negro children need neither segregated
schools nor mixed schools. What they
need is education." -W.E.B. DuBois
Why did some Black proponents of civil rights criticize school
desegregation?
Campaign Finance & Special Interest

Political Ads: PACS & Super PACs

Electioneering: Attempting to influence

an election, directly or indirectly.
Citizens United SCOTUS Case, 2010
Majority Opinion

• Identity of donor doesn't matter.

• Doesn’t question if large expenditures distorts public perception.
• Govt shouldn't restrict electioneering: trust the public.
• Corporations were around at the countries founding
• Sees "quid pro quo" as only measure of corruption.

Dissenting Opinion

• Preventing corruption within purview of the legislator.

• Corruption has many forms
• Exempts Education & Journalism: Purpose beyond electioneering.
Georgia
• Identify your Georgia state congresspersons.
State • Research their stance on at least one issue.​
House & Senate • How would you contact them?
Districts