The SAVE act, Voter ID laws, and turnout in America | Political Reality | S01E12
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Show Notes for Voter ID Ep.
📄 Riker and Ordeshook, “A Theory of the Calculus of Voting” (paper where the key equation came from):
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1953324
⚡ World’s briefest summary of the above:
https://adambrown.info/p/notes/riker_...
📊 Meta-study of papers that built from this earlier work (alas, it’s behind a paywall, I’m sorry):
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
📚 “Classic” (2008 lol cry) review of research on convenience voting:
https://www.annualreviews.org/docserv...
➕ plus some specific papers (there are lots more out there but this is a decent start):
🧠 People with greater political knowledge are more likely to use convenience voting:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/1...
⚖️ Convenience voting can exacerbate socioeconomic biases in composition of voters:
https://bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.m...
📬 Voting by mail increases turnout but does so differently across groups:
https://bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.m...
🏛️ Background on the SAVE act:
🔎 https://bipartisanpolicy.org/article/...
📰 https://www.ncsl.org/state-legislatur...
⚠️ https://www.brennancenter.org/our-wor...
📜 The SAVE act itself:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
🗺️ Voter ID laws by state:
https://ballotpedia.org/Voter_identif...
⚖️ Discussion of the constitutionality and legality of the SAVE act:
https://www.scotusblog.com/2026/03/th...
💸 Discussion of the poll tax issue regarding the SAVE act:
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/...