Learning by Voting
Learning by Voting The presidential primary season used to be a long sequence of elections. Similarly, in the past most voters have gone to a polling place and voted on election day. In recent years…
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Learning by Voting
The presidential primary season used to be a long sequence of elections. Similarly, in the past most voters have gone to a polling place and voted on election day. In recent years many states have moved their presidential primaries earlier in the year in the belief that this increases their influence over the choice of presidential nominees.
Do voters who vote early miss important information by not following the entire campaign, or are they, as some argue, more partisan? Now an increasing number of voters are not voting on election day but are using mail-in or absentee ballots to vote, often weeks before other voters.Does the movement to a large number of early presidential primaries reduce the ability of voters to learn about the candidates? In a unique study Rebecca B.
Morton and Kenneth C. Williams investigate the impact these changes have on the choices voters make. The authors