2022 Summer Challenge Resource List
Books
“One Person, No Vote”-Carol Anderson
“Give Us the Ballot”-Ari Berman
“The Fight to Vote”-Michael Waldman
“The Turnout Gap”-Bernard Fraga
“The Politics of Voter Suppression”-Tova Andrea Wang
“Democracy in One Book or Less”-David Litt
“The Embattled Vote in America”-Allen Litchman
“Buying the Vote: A History of Campaign Finance Reform”-Robert E. Mutch
“Democracy by the People: Reforming Campaign Finance in America”-
Eugene D. Mazo
“Plutocrats United: Campaign Money, the Supreme Court and the Distortion of
American Elections”-Richard L. Hasen
“Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?”-Alexander Keyssar
“The Choice of the People? Debating the Electoral College”-Judith A. Best
Documentaries
“Your Vote is Your Voice”-Wille Velasquez
“John Lewis: Good Trouble”
“Whose Vote Counts”-Frontline
“All In: The Fight for Democracy”
“Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America’s Elections”
“Electoral Dysfunction”-Mo Rocca
Podcasts
“Stuff You Should Know: 10 Voter Suppression Methods”
“The United States of Anxiety: A History of Voter Suppression”
“Make It Plain: Dark Money is Funding Voter
Sixteen “civic conversations” (podcasts) produced by Becky Hill, with interviews conducted
by Jim Allison of LWVBMC available at https://lwv-bmc.org/podcasts
- Examining Indiana’s Civic Health, Lisa-Marie Napoli, 3/10/22, 14 min.
- Election Security and Surrounding Disinformation, Abbey Stemler and Scott Shackelford, 12/14/21, 21 min.
- Perspectives on Gerrymandering, Ranjan Rohatgi, 4/17/22, 17 min.
- Civic Engagement: A High School Student’s View, Simone Smith and Shari Frank, 8/24/21, 10 min.
- Redistricting Developments, Julia Vaughn and Sonia Leerkamp, 9/18/20, 16 min.
- Gerrymandering, George Hegeman, 4/11/19, 11 min.
- Conversation about Redistricting, Elaine Gaul, Chaz Mottinger, Vicki Polansky and Jim Allison, 2/27/19, 20 min.
- Gerry’s Regret, a play by Jim Allison, acted by Becky Stapf and Betty Greenwell, 2/27/19, 19 min.
- Community Voices for Health, Liz Grenat and Terry Amsler, 2/15/22, 19 min.
- Indiana Coalition for Public Education, Keri Miksva, 9/10/21, 13 min.
- Moms Demand Action Advocates for Gun Safety Measures, Jennifer Haan, 7/13/21, 15 min.
- Indiana Climate Change Assessment, Melissa Widhalm, 6/15/21, 15 min.
- Ku Klux Klan in the Heartland, James Madison, 5/12/21, 13 min.
- Tribalism, Marjorie Hershey, 4/13/21, 13 min.
- Gender Equality, Susan Williams, 2/22/21, 14 min.
- College Students Big Ten Voting Challenge, Josephine McCormick, 8/20/20, 10 min,
- Disinformation, Betsy Grabe, 1/19/21, 16 min.