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Laying Out the Law -- Amending the Constitution -- The Nineteenth Amendment -- The Voting Rights Act of -- Old Enough to Vote -- Allowing All to Vote -- Help America Vote -- Access to the Polls -- Timeline of Voting Laws -- Glossary -- For More Information

The right to vote has been under debate since the founding of America, when only white men who owned land had a say in the future of the country. Laws have expanded to encompass all people, be they black, white, or female. How has voting shaped our country, and how have our laws shaped our ability to vote? Your readers will explore the history of voting in America to understand how Native Americans, blacks, and those in prison have been kept from the democratic process. Also explored is the possible future of voting rights and laws.

The power of a vote -- What's a constituent? -- Voting rules in the United States -- Cast your ballot! -- The right to vote -- The suffragists -- African American disenfranchisement -- The voting rights act -- The National Voter Registration Act -- Low voter turnout -- Explaining low turnout -- Improving voter turnout -- Active citizenship -- Your vote matters

We estimate a model of strategic voting and quantify the impact it has on election outcomes. Because the model exhibits multiplicity of outcomes, we adopt a set estimator. Using Japanese general-election data, we find a large fraction (63.4 percent, 84.9 percent) of strategic voters, only a small fraction (1.4 percent, 4.2 percent) of whom voted for a candidate other than the one they most preferred (misaligned voting). Existing empirical literature has not distinguished between the two, estimating misaligned voting instead of strategic voting. Accordingly, while our estimate of strategic voting is high, our estimate of misaligned voting is comparable to previous studies. (JEL D72)