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J. Alito's perennially young researcher and J. Roberts's purveyor of sociological gobbledygook. Radical empiricist. Opinions are my own.
Apr 13, 2021 10 tweets 3 min read
NEW: My @MPSAnet working paper with @MindySRomero and Jennifer Paluch looks at the effect of vote-by-mail (VBM) access policy on turnout and presidential vote in 2020. A thread with our findings. 1/ President Trump argued easing VBM would increase turnout at the expense of Republican candidates. Existing research suggests some VBM policies do increase turnout but do not in fact help or hurt either party. 2/