Tuesday's Gone
America’s Early Voting Revolution
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Lexington Books
Published:29th Aug '23
Should be back in stock very soon
This paperback is available in another edition too:
- Hardback£81.00(9781793652065)
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.
The 2020 election produced a record number of early ballots, cast in myriad different ways. In this essential book, Elliott Fullmer shows that the 2020 election was merely the continuation of a trend toward early voting, which has important political and normative implications. Fullmer uses a variety of empirical methods to explore the implications and consequences of early voting. His analysis is careful, thorough, and persuasive. Fullmer balances the dangers that substantial early voting would leave a majority of the electorate unable to respond to critical campaign events with the increased convenience of voting that allows more Americans to participate in elections. This book belongs on the bookshelf of all those who study elections.
-- Clyde Wilcox, Georgetown UniversityEarly voting poses many challenges to classical models of voting. In Tuesday’s Gone, Fullmer gives us his perceptive account of how these voting reforms are reshaping American elections. His book is packed with data-rich insights on how these early voting reforms are changing our understanding of turnout, the importance of accessible elections for minority voters, and how early voting can profoundly alter the race for the presidential nomination.
-- Peter Miller, Brennan Center for Justice, New York UniverISBN: 9781793652089
Dimensions: 230mm x 154mm x 14mm
Weight: 295g
182 pages