As opposed to the anxiety surrounding our voting system, with stories about voter suppression and manipulation, there are actually a number of positive initiatives toward voting legal rights reform. Professor Joshua A. Douglas, an expert on our electoral system, examines these encouraging developments with this motivating book about how regular Americans are working to take back their democracy, one community at the same time.

Informed through the narratives of those working on positive voting privileges reforms, Douglas includes chapters on expanding voter eligibility, easing voter sign up rules, building voting more convenient, improving accessibility on the polls, providing voters with more choices, finding ways to comply with voter ID guidelines, giving redistricting back to the voters, pushing back on big money through local and state initiatives, using journalism to help make the program more accountable, and improving civics education.

Unusually accessible for any lay audience and completely researched, this publication gives anyone fed up with our current political environment the ideas and tools necessary to affect change within their own communities.