{"id":22593,"date":"2018-02-15T18:53:01","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T23:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=22593"},"modified":"2018-02-15T18:53:01","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T23:53:01","slug":"voting-by-mail-increases-turnout-research-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2018\/02\/15\/voting-by-mail-increases-turnout-research-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Voting by mail increases turnout, research shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-thumbnail link-fullfeature\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-twentyfourteen-full-width wp-post-image alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/VOTEbyMail_large-story.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/VOTEbyMail_large-story.jpg 900w, https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/VOTEbyMail_large-story-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/VOTEbyMail_large-story-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/VOTEbyMail_large-story-120x80.jpg 120w\" alt=\"postal worker holds envelope\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"link-caption\"><em>Monty Trabue, a mail handler at the Louisville, KY, Processing and Distribution Center, checks a tub for Election Mail in 2016.<\/em><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<p>Allowing people to vote by mail boosts turnout, especially during lower-profile elections, the authors of a new study say.<\/p>\n<p>The research is based on data from a 2014 midterm election in Colorado, one of three states that conduct all voting by mail. According to the study, allowing people in Colorado to vote at home increased overall turnout by 3.3 percent that year \u2014 and by even more among young and low-propensity voters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyone who cares about improving turnout should make vote at home a top priority,\u201d Gilad Edelman and Paul Glastris, two journalists who commissioned the study, wrote in a recent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/outlook\/letting-people-vote-at-home-increases-voter-turnout-heres-proof\/2018\/01\/26\/d637b9d2-017a-11e8-bb03-722769454f82_story.html?utm_term=.2e3cfb54de50\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Washington Post opinion piece<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to convenience, voting by mail is also secure, Edelman and Glastris write.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause it relies on old-fashioned pen and paper, it can\u2019t be hacked. While ballots are counted by machine, those machines don\u2019t need to be connected to the internet, and a paper trail is there for a recount,\u201d they write.<\/p>\n<p>Like Colorado, Oregon and Washington also conduct all voting by mail.<\/p>\n<p>The Postal Service works with election officials across the nation \u2014 including secretaries of state, state election directors and county leaders, as well as national organizations \u2014 to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/link.usps.com\/2016\/08\/05\/tour-of-duty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>prepare<\/em><\/a>\u00a0for elections.<\/p>\n<p>USPS also educates employees on procedures to accept, process and deliver Election Mail and Political Mail.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/link.usps.com\/2018\/02\/15\/civics-lesson\/\">USPS News Link<\/a> 2\/15\/18<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monty Trabue, a mail handler at the Louisville, KY, Processing and Distribution Center, checks a tub for Election Mail in 2016. Allowing people to vote by mail boosts turnout, especially during lower-profile elections, the authors of a new study say. The research is based on data from a 2014 midterm election in Colorado, one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usps-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22593"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22596,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22593\/revisions\/22596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}