Fact-check: “Disallowing absentee ballots will suppress total voter turnout.”
Verdict: Mostly True (68% confidence)
The research literature broadly supports a positive relationship between absentee ballot access and total turnout, but the size of that effect is consistently found to be modest — around 2 to 3 percentage points in presidential elections under quasi-experimental designs — rather than large and uniform. One key qualification is that some voters would simply substitute in-person voting when absentee is removed, partially offsetting the suppression effect; however, populations with no feasible in-…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
Related fact-checks
- Pete hegseth uses cocaine — Unverifiable
- Pete hegseth is a drunk — Partly True
- September is a good time to see whales in the waters around Greenland — True
- In 1979 America was ranked #1 in education and 46 years later we are ranked #40 — False
- Over 1000 people are killed by US police every year. — Mostly True