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-…
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