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The soldier vote : war, politics, and the ballot in America
\"The Soldier Vote tells the story of how American citizens in the armed forces gained the right to vote while away from home. Beginning with the American Revolution, through the Civil War, and World War II, the ability for deployed military personnel to cast a ballot in elections was difficult and often vociferously resisted by politicians of both political parties. Finally, during the Cold War, Congress managed to pass the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act. That Act, along with further improvements in the early twenty-first century, began to make it easier for military personnel and American citizens living abroad to participate in elections at home. Using newly obtained data about the military voter, The Soldier Vote challenges some widely held views about the nature of the military vote and how service personnel vote\"-- Provided by publisher.
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What's at stake in the Senate runoff in Georgia
In the first and only weekend of early voting in the Senate runoff in Georgia, tens of thousands of voters cast ballots in the election pitting Sen. Raphael Warnock (D) against Herschel Walker (R) — the final Senate contest of the 2022 midterms.
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Election Laws, Mobilization, and Turnout: The Unanticipated Consequences of Election Reform
State governments have experimented with a variety of election laws to make voting more convenient and increase turnout. The impacts of these reforms vary in surprising ways, providing insight into the mechanisms by which states can encourage or reduce turnout. Our theory focuses on mobilization and distinguishes between the direct and indirect effects of election laws. We conduct both aggregate and individual-level statistical analyses of voter turnout in the 2004 and 2008 presidential elections. The results show that Election Day registration has a consistently positive effect on turnout, whereas the most popular reform—early voting—is actually associated with lower turnout when it is implemented by itself. We propose that early voting has created negative unanticipated consequences by reducing the civic significance of elections for individuals and altering the incentives for political campaigns to invest in mobilization.
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Ballot Position, Choice Fatigue, and Voter Behaviour
In this article, we examine the effect of \"choice fatigue\" on decision making. We exploit a natural experiment in which voters face the same contest at different ballot positions due to differences in the number of local issues on their ballot. Facing more decisions before a given contest significantly increases the tendency to abstain or rely on decision shortcuts, such as voting for the status quo or the first-listed candidate. We estimate that, without choice fatigue, abstentions would decrease by 8%, and 6% of the propositions in our data set would have passed rather than failed.
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Leavitt claims there is “fraud” in California elections
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Nov. 4 that the use of mail-in ballots in California — which is allowed by state law — was fraudulent.
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The Effect of Administrative Burden on Bureaucratic Perception of Policies: Evidence from Election Administration
This article argues that administrative burden—that is, an individual's experience of policy implementation as onerous—is an important consideration for administrators and influences their views on policy and governance options. The authors test this proposition in the policy area of election administration using a mixed-method assessment of local election officials They find that the perceived administrative burden of policies is associated with a preference to shift responsibilities to others, perceptions of greater flaws and lesser merit in policies that have created the burden (to the point that such judgments are demonstrably wrong), and opposition to related policy innovations.
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What early voting totals tell us about the Georgia runoffs
A record-breaking number of early ballots were cast in Georgia's Jan. 5 runoff elections. The Post's Lenny Bronner explains what can be learned from that data.
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Reducing the Cost of Voting: An Evaluation of Internet Voting’s Effect on Turnout
Voting models assume that voting costs impact turnout. As turnout declined across advanced democracies, governments enacted reforms designed to reduce costs in order to increase participation. Internet voting, used in elections across a dozen countries, promises to reduce voting costs dramatically. Yet identifying its effect on turnout has proven difficult. In this article, we use original panel data of local elections in Ontario, Canada and fixed effects estimators to estimate internet voting’s effect. The results show internet voting can increase turnout by 3.5 percentage points, with larger increases when vote by mail (VBM) is not yet adopted, and greater use when registration is not required. Our estimates suggest that internet voting is unlikely to solve the low turnout crisis, and imply that cost arguments do not fully account for recent turnout declines.
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The Miracle and Tragedy of the 2020 U.S. Election
The 2020 election was both a miracle and a tragedy. In the midst of a pandemic posing unprecedented challenges, local and state administrators pulled off a safe, secure, and professional election. This article discusses metrics of success in the adaptations that took place—record-high turnout, widespread voter satisfaction, a doubling of mail voting without a concomitant increase in problems often associated with absentee ballots, and the recruitment of hundreds of thousands of new poll workers. However, a competing narrative of a \"stolen election\" led to a historically deep chasm between partisans in their trust of the election process and outcome.
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Building Power, Advancing Health Equity: Insights From Voting and Beyond
In their impactful work, Rushovich et al. (p. 300) Investigate the effects of passing the US Voting Rights Act in 1965 on population health inequities. The Voting Rights Act was created to prevent racial discrimination at the polls, and the provision of voting rights led to dramatic improvements in health for Black, but not White, infants. This instructive research pushes usto consider both social and political determinants of health and to interrogate the role of racism in such analyses. Voting is a critical, albeit often overlooked, factor influencing population health. Although the field of public health is beginning to study voting as a determinant of health, it must also move further upstream to consider, more broadly, how power creates and maintains health inequities.
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