Early and mail-in voting: Research shows they don't always bring in new voters

More than 110 million votes were cast in the U.S. midterm elections of November 2022. Hill Street Studios/Digital Vision via Getty Iag

SciLine interviewed Jan Leighley, professor of government in the School of Public Affairs at American University in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 4, 2022. Leighley discussed how early voting affects turnout, how turnout differs for midterm and presidential elections, how pollsters predict turnout and how to understand the persistent gap between people’s intention to vote and actual turnout.

Jan Leighley, professor of government in the School of Public Affairs at American University, discusses voter turnout.