One Person, No Vote

Voter suppression documented as deliberate policy rather than accident. Anderson traces the mechanisms, the purges, the closures, the requirements, that subtract eligible voters from the rolls, and shows the pattern behind what can look like a scatter of unrelated local decisions. The book's value is that it makes the machinery visible, on the old principle that what can be seen can be contested. A field guide to how a vote is lost before it is cast.

The historian who documents voter suppression as deliberate policy rather than accident. One Person, No Vote traces the mechanisms, the purges, the closures, the requirements, that quietly subtract eligible voters from the rolls, and shows the pattern behind what can look like scattered local decisions. She writes to make the machinery visible, on the principle that what is seen can be contested.