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Between Election Day 2000 and the Supreme Court's late-night fiat thirty-six days later, the American public was afforded a rare glimpse behind the curtain shrouding our democracy. It was a disquieting sight, revealing, as never before, just how deeply flawed our much vaunted system truly is. Not only was an outrageously large number of African-American votes nullified in Florida, but we learned that more than two million Americans are routinely disenfranchised in presidential elections -- their votes, for one reason or another, discarded.
From "A Note On the Paperback"