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Professor Suttmann-Lea writes about mail-in voting in The Washington Post

Assistant Professor of Government Mara Suttmann-Lea has co-authored a piece in The Washington Post that explores the potential drawbacks of voting by mail ahead of this November’s national elections. 

In the era of COVID-19, many states across the U.S. are considering mail-in voting to mitigate the risk of infection for voters. According to research conducted by Suttmann-Lea and her colleagues, this could lead to a disproportionate number of ethnic minorities, young and first-time voters being disenfranchised. 

The authors cite data they collected from the 2018 midterm elections in Georgia to support their conclusions and recommend solutions. They write in part:

"Mail voting may be necessary to ensure public health, but without much-needed protections—prepaid postage, voter education outreach by local election officials, an opportunity to address a missing or mismatched signature, helping voters by picking up and returning mail ballots, and counting ballots postmarked (rather than received) by Election Day—it could disenfranchise some voters."

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May 21, 2020

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