Alipour, JV; Lindlacher, Valentin - 2022
We study how seemingly benign changes to voting costs affect electoral turnout, exploiting plausibly exogenous … relocations cause a persistent shift from in-person to mail-in voting and a transitory drop in overall turnout by 0 … forgo voting today and turn to mail-in voting in ensuing elections. The drop in participation is stronger in precincts with …