One Person, No Vote

One Person, No Vote

by Carol Anderson

An exceedingly eye-opening book to read about how politics play a role in voting, education, and keeping poverty in select sections of various states within the US.  In Carol Anderson’s book One Person, No Vote, the reader learns the lengths that many politicians have taken to ensure that people of color continue to be disadvantaged in the electoral process.  Anderson provides significant background and historical perspective on the process of re-districting (gerrymandering) by both mainstream political parties.  Her research into the topic is in-depth with recent election outcomes to support her arguments.  The book is broken into five sections: The early days of the US election process, the use of voter IDs, how political parties in power purged voter rolls, rigging the rules for voting, and the current resistance (where some are asking for voters to prove their intelligence to vote!)  Every American citizen should have the right to vote, but do they really?  District lines should not be determined by the color of one’s skin nor should the number of hours it takes for citizens to vote.  This is a must read for every citizen and worthy of debate on how to resolve.