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The Impact of COVID-19 Surges on Voter Behavior in the 2020 US General Election

2022-12-30

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COVID-19 caused worldwide disruption to virtually every aspect of human life, including elections. This study assesses the impact of potential COVID exposure, convenience voting policies, and partisanship on voter behavior in the 2020 US general election. Using a new data set comprising county and state data, we demonstrate that countywide COVID-death rates depressed turnout from 2016 levels. COVID mortalities, pa...

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Literature Corpus work: b9ceed44-b773-54ee-9017-b1a123285257
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4314257

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