Why the article is helpful
- Insights and debates about convenience voting
- Convenience (early or mail-in votes) is the preferred voting choice
- Elderly and the disabled prefer to vote by mail
By allocating a large-sample survey, the authors were able to analyze preferred voting methods in the 2008 presidential election. Over the past decade, convenience voting has become the increasingly common choice, especially with elderly voters and those with disabilities. It was also been determined that convenience voting has no relation to partisan voting and that the Republican Party does not do better with convenience voting.
Links to article
Alvarez, R., Levin, I., & Sinclair, J. (2012). Making voting easier: Convenience voting in the 2008 Presidential election. Political Research Quarterly, 65(2), 248-262. doi:10.1177/1065912911398048