Electoral Engineering and the Freedom to Vote – Scientific American

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Securing basic voting rights should take priority over more elaborate reforms

Securing basic voting rights should take priority over more elaborate reforms

Michael Latner is a professor of political science at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, and a senior fellow of voting rights at the Union of Concerned Scientists' Center for Science and Democracy. He is co-author of Gerrymandering the States: Partisanship, Race, and the Transformation of American Federalism (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and Gerrymandering in America: The House of Representatives, the Supreme Court, and the Future of Popular Sovereignty (Cambridge University Press, 2016).

Charles "Tony" Smith is a professor of political science and law at the University of California, Irvine. His research is grounded in the American judiciary but includes comparative and international frameworks; its unifying theme is how democratic institutions and the strategic interaction of political actors fulfill or inhibit rights. He received a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, San Diego, and a J.D. from the University of Florida.

Alex Keena is an assistant professor of political science at Virginia Commonwealth University whose research focuses on political representation. He is co-author of Gerrymandering the States: Partisanship, Race, and the Transformation of American Federalism (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and Gerrymandering in America: The House of Representatives, the Supreme Court, and the Future of Popular Sovereignty (Cambridge University Press, 2016). He received a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Irvine.

Anthony McGann is a professor of government and public policy at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland. He is co-author of Gerrymandering the States: Partisanship, Race, and the Transformation of American Federalism (Cambridge University Press, 2021), Gerrymandering in America: The House of Representatives, the Supreme Court, and the Future of Popular Sovereignty (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and The Logic of Democracy (University of Michigan Press, 2006).

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Electoral Engineering and the Freedom to Vote - Scientific American