The participatory and partisan impacts of mandatory vote-by-mail.

Autor:	Barber M; Department of Political Science, Brigham Young University, 745 Kimball Tower, Provo, UT 84602, USA., Holbein JB; Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, University of Virginia, 111 Garrett Hall, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Science advances [Sci Adv] 2020 Aug 26; Vol. 6 (35), pp. eabc7685. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Aug 26 (Print Publication: 2020).
DOI:	10.1126/sciadv.abc7685
Abstrakt:	Recently, mandatory vote-by-mail has received a great deal of attention as a means of administering elections in the United States. However, policy-makers disagree on the merits of this approach. Many of these debates hinge on whether mandatory vote-by-mail advantages one political party over the other. Using a unique pairing of historical county-level data that covers the past three decades and more than 40 million voting records from the two states that have conducted a staggered rollout of mandatory vote-by-mail (Washington and Utah), we use several methods for causal inference to show that mandatory vote-by-mail slightly increases voter turnout but has no effect on election outcomes at various levels of government. Our results find meaning given contemporary debates about the merits of mandatory vote-by-mail. Mandatory vote-by-mail ensures that citizens are given a safe means of casting their ballot while simultaneously not advantaging one political party over the other. (Copyright © 2020 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CC BY).)
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