Five Dollars and a Pork Chop Sandwich : Vote Buying and the Corruption of Democracy (Hardcover)

from fields.steph

With "Five Dollars and a Pork Chop Sandwich," Dr. Berry dives right into corrupt voting practices. Vote buying, vote hauling, etc. are common features throughout American politics, even today and especially at local levels, and Dr. Berry makes no attempt to shy away from this fact. Dr. Berry focu...

from Matthew1982

If I had to summarize this book in a single sentence, I'd call it: "A quick guide to vote-buying in America, from a somewhat leftist perspective." It covers crooked political shenanigans in rural Louisiana, Florida, Kentucky, a few other places, and everyone's favorite corruption-related whipping...

from Maya47Bob46

Before I read "Five Dollars and a Pork Chop Sandwich" I knew there are always allegations of voter fraud primarily in the form voters illegally registering to vote with very few documented cases and I knew about "walking around" money as a historical practice, but didn't know that it was also a r...

from SqueakyChu

I became interested in reading about voter fraud/voter suppression as a result of the accusations flying around the 2016 Presidential election of Donald Trump in the United States (e.g. the president's claim that he would have won the New Hampshire election if not for the "thousands" of people wh...

from eudoh

Mary Frances Berry's unfiltered assessment of the history of corruption and voter-tampering that have been rampant in the United States is astonishing. She details the combination of audacity, economic desperation, and willful inattention that allow "public servants" to intimidate, coerce, and br...