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I've updated my voter turnout demographics 1986-2020 for the release of the 2020 Current Population Survey Voting and Registration Supplement. Graphs and code are available here: http://www.electproject.org/home/voter-turnout/demographi

Out of the all of the Republican changes to voting laws, Florida's most directly targets Democrats by cancelling 2022 absentee ballot requests for hundreds of thousands of registered Democrats (FL

Whelp. Likely means two things: 1. The FL reg Dem party registration lead in the #earlyvote is larger than being reporting2. If it is really close on election night, we

According to the Census Bureau's Current Population Survey Voting and Registration Supplement, non-voters' self-reported most frequent reason for abstaining from the 2016 general election was they didn't like the candidateshttps

It is National Voter Registration Day. Register if you must, but get mad doing it knowing that you have to do this busywork because someone wants to suppress your vote

Trump is trying to cripple the Post Office to influence the election. Why and what should you do? (A short thread) FL Nov. mail ballot requests by party reg (as

Hyperventilate if you feel you must, but OH sent all active registered voters absentee ballot applications in 2012 and 2014 general elections (and several states did so in the 2020

Over 300K mail ballots were rejected in the 2016 November election. We might see a million or more rejected in 2020 because of higher usage and more people who are

Ohio 2020 primary absentee ballot statistics for 69 of 88 counties, all with public facing absentee ballot files (includes largest counties):Requests: 1,554,837Returned: 1,434,308Returned on-time: 1,387,627Returned late: 46,681Thanks to @Br

According to Florida's records, Trump voted a normal mail-in ballot sent to Mar-a-Lago, not an absentee ballot sent to the White House. Indeed, someone had to deliver it from Mar-a-Lago

Idaho Republicans tried to game a vote-by-mail election by putting the onus entirely on voters to request ballots thru their on-line system, then they realized rural connectivity problems would hurt