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How Well-Intentioned Measures Have Unintended Consequences for Election Turnout

Jean-Victor Alipour, Valentin Lindlacher
CESifo, Munich, 2024

EconPol Forum 25 (4), 45-48
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  • Reassigning citizens to vote at a different polling place causes a persistent shift from in-person to mail-in voting and a transitory drop in total turnout
  • The turnout loss is driven by inattentive voters, who miss the deadline for requesting a mail-in ballot
  • The effects are more driven by the reassignment itself and less by the changes in distance to the polling location
  • Explicit notification about polling place reassignments could prevent losses in turnout

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