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→Additional States and voter rolls: Credit where credit is due
:It is true that most (if not all) states make the list of registered voters available after the election, including whether the particular voter participated in the primary or general election. It is also true that many states make list of early voters or absentee voters available during the period before election day, which will allow campaigns to taylor their voter contacts in light of who has already voted and who has not. Neither of these is necessarily related to voter intimidation. For example, a campaign might want to contact past voters on the assumption that they are more likely to vote in the next election as well. Similarly, if a campaign knows that someone has already voted early, then the campaign will not waste time or money contacting them again in its GOTV efforts. While making such data public is specified in various state laws, the fact that it is public is not evidence that voter intimidation in fact occurs. If an argument is being constructed that there is voter intimidation of early voters, then the fact that the list of all voters is also made public after the election is completely irrelevant to the argument. Thanks for all that you do for CP. [[User:Wschact|Wschact]] 16:31, 15 November 2012 (EST)
:It is true that most (if not all) states make the list of registered voters available after the election, including whether the particular voter participated in the primary or general election. It is also true that many states make list of early voters or absentee voters available during the period before election day, which will allow campaigns to taylor their voter contacts in light of who has already voted and who has not. Neither of these is necessarily related to voter intimidation. For example, a campaign might want to contact past voters on the assumption that they are more likely to vote in the next election as well. Similarly, if a campaign knows that someone has already voted early, then the campaign will not waste time or money contacting them again in its GOTV efforts. While making such data public is specified in various state laws, the fact that it is public is not evidence that voter intimidation in fact occurs. If an argument is being constructed that there is voter intimidation of early voters, then the fact that the list of all voters is also made public after the election is completely irrelevant to the argument. Thanks for all that you do for CP. [[User:Wschact|Wschact]] 16:31, 15 November 2012 (EST)
:Please respect the difference between "early voting", "convenience voting", "absentee voting" and "postal voting." Political scientists have assigned exact definitions to each. Thanks, [[User:Wschact|Wschact]] 16:33, 15 November 2012 (EST)
:Please respect the difference between "early voting", "convenience voting", "absentee voting" and "postal voting." Political scientists have assigned exact definitions to each. Thanks, [[User:Wschact|Wschact]] 16:33, 15 November 2012 (EST)
::Thank you for your informative post. I have reviewed the literature over the past few days (you may be interested to know I hold a political science degree, although I am not an americanist). I would merely note that the literature does not draw such black and white lines--for example, Burden et al, include postal voting and no excuse absentee voting as examples of early voting. ''Election Laws, Mobilization, and Turnout:The Unanticipated Consequences of Election Reform, 2010'' That said I will respect your edits. I would encourage you to consider the level at which this project is written--that is, how useful is graduate level term definition? One final topic: you'll note that my edit regarding state voter rolls never speculated as to the purpose of releasing the information, merely that such information was released. You must have been thinking of a later section regarding impacts. Thanks, [[User:WilliamWB|WilliamWB]] 12:13, 18 November 2012 (EST)
== re: claim that early voting undermines voter ID ==
== re: claim that early voting undermines voter ID ==