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The Resilient Voter - Stressful Polling Places and Voting Behavior (Paperback)
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The Resilient Voter - Stressful Polling Places and Voting Behavior (Paperback)
Series: Voting, Elections, and the Political Process
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The Resilient Voter: Stressful Polling Places and Voting Behavior
provides a new perspective on the role voting barriers play,
demonstrating that they not only discourage participation but also
affect the quality of votes cast. Offering an interesting and
unique approach to the study of voting barriers, Shauna Reilly and
Stacy G. Ulbig investigate the possibility that complicated ballot
language, provisional voting, and long polling place lines cause
some voters to cast ballots in a manner contradictory to their
preferences. Building on arguments that stressful polling place
conditions subject citizens to stress that can prevent them from
casting complete ballots or even choosing to vote at all, the
authors ask whether those who endure polling place frustrations and
persevere to cast a ballot might become so stressed by their
experience that they are unable to mark their ballots in a manner
consistent with their standing policy preferences. Using a creative
experimental design, the authors examine the ways in which complex
ballot language, registration difficulties, and long polling place
lines affect voters' stress levels, and how such anxieties
translate into the willingness to cast a complete ballot and the
ability to vote in a manner conforming to previously expressed
preferences. The authors demonstrate that even though most voters
prove remarkably resilient in the face of some potentially
stressful polling place barriers, they are not immune to all
polling place conditions. Further, they illustrate that some
segments of the electorate tend to be more vulnerable to polling
place stressors than others and illustrate the ways in which the
compound effects of multiple barriers can exert an even wider
impact.
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