Convenience voting

Annual Review of Political Science

Volumn 11, Issue , 2008, Pages 437-455

  Gronke, Paul ^a   Galanes Rosenbaum, Eva ^a   Miller, Peter A ^a   Toffey, Daniel ^a  

^a REED COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Absentee voting; Early voting; Election administration; Elections; Turnout; Vote by mail

Indexed keywords

EID: 47549104998     PISSN: 10942939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.polisci.11.053006.190912     Document Type: Article

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