Tuesday&#039;s Gone

Elliott Fullmer

doi:10.5771/9781793652072

Summary

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.

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Copyright year: 2021
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-5206-5
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-5207-2
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 170
Product type: Book Titles

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
3. 1. Figures No access
  2. Tables No access
4. Acknowledgments No access
1. Early Voting Today No access
2. General Objectives of the Book No access
3. Chapter Outline No access
4. Note No access
1. Early Voting Emerges No access
2. Early Voting Expands No access
3. The New England Exception No access
4. Universal Vote-by-Mail No access
5. Early Voting Gets Political No access
6. The Voting Rights Act No access
7. Conclusions No access
8. Notes No access
1. The Decision to Vote No access
2. Local Implementation No access
3. Early Voting and Turnout: A New Approach No access
4. Presidential Election Model No access
5. Presidential Election Findings No access
6. Midterm Election Model No access
7. Midterm Election Findings No access
8. Conclusions No access
9. Notes No access
1. Data and Methods No access
2. Midterm Election Findings No access
3. Presidential Election Findings No access
4. Conclusions No access
5. Notes No access
1. Ballot Roll-Off No access
2. Data and Methods No access
3. Findings No access
4. Roll-Off in 2018 No access
5. Conclusions No access
6. Notes No access
1. Data and Methods No access
2. Presidential Findings No access
3. Midterm Findings No access
4. Fixed Effects Models No access
5. Conclusions No access
6. Notes No access
1. Information Asymmetries No access
2. Case Selection No access
3. The Clinton Early Vote Strategies No access
4. Measuring Clinton’s Early Voting Advantage No access
5. 2008 Findings No access
6. 2016 Findings No access
7. Conclusions No access
8. Notes No access
Conclusion No access Pages 133 - 144
Bibliography No access Pages 145 - 162
Index No access Pages 163 - 170