Tuesday's Gone
America’s Early Voting Revolution
Abstract
Election Day, as it was once known, is no more. In 2020, with COVID-19 raging, over 60 percent of American voters cast early ballots. Even before the pandemic, more than one-third of voters routinely did so. Early voting represents a radical change in American elections. It means new options for voters, new procedures for election clerks, and new challenges for political candidates. In Tuesday’s Gone, Elliott Fullmer explores the effects of this new reality. Applying new data and innovative methods, he reports that early voting is bringing new citizens to the polls. Examining four recent elections, he finds that both early in-person and absentee options increase turnout by several points when aggressively implemented by state and local officials. But early voting does come with some side effects. Fullmer cautions that early voting increases down-ballot roll-off, widens racial disparities in voting access, and alters the competitive environment in presidential nomination contests.
Schlagworte
Absentee voting Early voting electoral reform vote-by-mail voter suppression voter turnout voting rights- 1–10 Introduction 1–10
- 133–144 Conclusion 133–144
- 145–162 Bibliography 145–162
- 163–170 Index 163–170