![]() ![]() ![]() His chapter “Who Votes” runs through the history of voter exclusion (at the time of the 1787 Constitutional Convention, just 6% of Americans could vote, white male property owners) to the Jim Crow laws to the voter suppression tactics (ID laws, poll closures) that have proliferated since the U.S. Newman covers the bases on how democracy is undermined, from the origins and effects of an electoral college that reduces a presidential election to no more than a dozen swing states to partisan redistricting in which politicians choose their voters to the dominance of unregulated dark money. It doesn’t just bemoan the status quo, it offers road maps for getting involved and bringing change. It’s a fast 250-page read, it’s fun - and it’s laced with hope. It features three elements that are not usually associated with books about political reform. “Unrig” draws the pictures, with clever and insightful storytelling. ![]() ![]() Newman put his knowledge to good use in his newly released graphic novel, “Unrig: How to Fix Our Broken Democracy.” The book is an answer for the frustrated American trying to explain to fellow citizens the corrosive effect of money in politics and who is tempted to say, “Let me draw you a picture.” ![]()
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