The Response to Extensions of Vote-by-Mail and Early In-person Voting in the 2020 U.S. General Election

Margaret M. Cigno, Ruth Y. Goldway and Edward S. Pearsall
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Margaret M. Cigno: U.S. Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC)
Ruth Y. Goldway: U.S. Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC)
Edward S. Pearsall: Former Chairman, U.S. Postal Regulatory Commission

Chapter Chapter 18 in The Postal and Delivery Contribution in Hard Times, 2023, pp 273-298 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract To cope with the COVID-19 pandemic during the 2020 general election, many U.S. states changed their election systems to encourage use of alternative methods of voting. Some states made greater use of the mail to distribute and collect ballots; others permitted early in-person voting prior to election day. Many did both and a few did neither. As a result, mail-in and early in-person voting reached historically high levels. In effect, the 2020 election became a vast unplanned experiment in which voters were confronted with diverse systems involving mail-in ballots, early access to polling places and, often, liberalized eligibility and procedures. In this paper we report the results of an econometric examination of this experiment with emphasis on how the estimates relate to increased usage of the mail to conduct elections.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-11413-7_18

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