Alipour, Jean-Victor; Lindlacher, Valentin - 2022
We study how shocks to voting costs affect electoral turnout. Individuals whose polling place is relocated face changes … to their cost of voting in person due to altered distance and unfamiliarity with the new polling place. Using address …-level and precinct-level data, we find that polling place relocations depress turnout by 0.5–0.6 percentage points (p.p.): in …