Event



Five Dollars and a Pork Chop Sandwich: Vote Buying and the Corruption of Democracy- A Book Talk by Dr. Mary Frances Berry

Oct 18, 2016 at | University of Pennsylvania Bookstore. 36th and Walnut Streets.

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Though voting rights are fundamental to American democracy, felon disfranchisement, voter identification laws, and hard-to-access polling locations with limited hours are a few of the ways voter turnout is suppressed. These methods of voter suppression are pernicious, but inĀ Five Dollars and a Pork Chop Sandwich, Dr. Mary Frances Berry focuses on forms of corruption including vote buying, vote hauling, the abuse of absentee ballots, and other illegal practices by candidates and their middlemen, often in collusion with local election officials.

Event followed by a book signing reception.