Cal State Easy Bay Professor Writes about Voting by Mail

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  • January 19, 2016

麻豆传媒社区入口 Associate Political Science Professor Elizabeth Bergman shared her expertise about voting by mail through an article she penned for The Washington Post published Dec. 21.

The article discusses how voting by mail works, how it affects turnout and why mail-only balloting actually decreases voting.

“My research found that when you can only vote by mail, voter turnout actually drops about 13 percent,” Bergman wrote.

According to Bergman, reminders are critical to combat this. “My research found that when the elections office communicates more often with voters, more of them vote,” Bergman wrote. “In particular, four official communications can wipe out the 13 percent decrease in turnout that I found.”

Read the full article in .