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(3.57) | 5 | "Investigative reporter Jack Sharpe is down to his last chance. Fired from his high-profile gig with a national news channel, his only lead is a phone full of messages from a grad student named Tori Justice, who swears she's observed an impossible result in a local election. Sharpe is sure she's mistaken...but what if she isn't? Sharpe learns that the most important tool in any election is the voter file: the database that keeps track of all voters in a district, and shapes a campaign's game plan for victory. If one person were to gain control of an entire party's voter file, they could manipulate the outcome of virtually every election in America. Sharpe discovers this has happened--and that the person behind the hack is determined to turn American politics upside down. The more he digs, the more Sharpe is forced to question the values--and viability--of the country he loves and a president he admired. And soon it becomes clear that not just his career is in jeopardy...so is his life"--… (mehr) |
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Die Informationen stammen von der englischen "Wissenswertes"-Seite. Ändern, um den Eintrag der eigenen Sprache anzupassen. To Mom and Dad, my first and most loyal readers.  | |
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Die Informationen stammen von der englischen "Wissenswertes"-Seite. Ändern, um den Eintrag der eigenen Sprache anzupassen. Even though the HR director had just fired her. a smile was dangerously close to emerging across Kat's face. -Prologue Jack Sharpe? Wait, aren't you like some kind of famous celebrity? - Chapter 1 | |
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Die Informationen stammen von der englischen "Wissenswertes"-Seite. Ändern, um den Eintrag der eigenen Sprache anzupassen. So the typical statehouse session involved two tasks: enact a steady stream of extreme legislation designed to fend off primary challenges, and usher through lobbyist-backed legislation to cater to the special interests and donors. Then repeat the drill, year after year. “First they apportion the number of seats to each state based on the national census. Then each state draws those crazy districts.” “And it’s the state legislators who draw those districts, right?” “So, by interfering in state legislative races around the country, you can determine which party runs Congress for the next decade?” “Our present circumstances generate great riches for a small number of people, who wisely invest a portion of those riches to preserve our present circumstances.” “The old antitrust laws were both clear and broad, but the courts weakened them over time. And in a system awash in corporate money, that weakness has allowed the monopolies to run roughshod over politicians, regulators, and today’s courts. So the law is dead, along with enforcement.” the corporations that dominate our country’s economy also are coming to dominate its politics. Not the people themselves.” he called “control caps”—a hard limit, up to a certain percentage, on how much one or several corporations could control each industry. He didn’t present a single cap but a formula establishing a “control cap” for each industry. For any industry where those caps were surpassed, the book advocated breaking up the corporations involved. The largest banks, airlines, and drug companies would be split up. From soybeans to dairy, major food industry groups would need to be broken up. Technology giants like Google and Facebook would face especially onerous limits, selling off recent acquisitions and opening themselves up to real competition. And media companies like Republic would have to decide whether to continue as national cable stations or operate a limited number of local stations—but could no longer do both. Same rules for print journalism and local newspapers. modern campaigns asked voters what their “plan” to vote was: what date they planned to vote, and how. Doing so carried two benefits. First, studies showed that thinking through a plan to vote made people more likely to vote. Second, knowing each plan gave the campaign an individualized timeline for each voter. If a voter missed her planned date to vote, a campaign volunteer would follow up. Each Ohio district represented about 115,000 residents, 80,000 of whom were registered voters. In a good year, about half would vote, which meant that a shift of only several thousand votes was enough to flip a seat from one party to the other. The rate of meddling in Marblehead was well above that. someone is accessing databases housing the private information of millions of Americans. That’s big enough by itself. But because the winning candidates will begin drawing congressional districts only months from now, this will usher in a sea change in American politics for a decade.” | |
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