Elliott Fullmer

Tuesday's Gone (eBook, ePUB)

America's Early Voting Revolution

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781793652072
• Artikelnr.: 62621380

Autorenporträt

Elliott Fullmer is an associate professor of political science at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: The Early Voting Story
Chapter 2: Early Voting and County Turnout
Chapter 3: Early Voting and Individual Turnout
Chapter 4: Early Voting and Down-Ballot Roll-Off
Chapter 5: Early Voting and Racial Inequity
Chapter 6: Early Voting and Presidential Nominations