Political Reality 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_and_ordeshook_a_theory_of_the_calculus_of_voting
📊 Meta-study of papers that built from this earlier work (alas, it’s behind a paywall, I’m sorry):
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0261379412001527
📚 “Classic” (2008 lol cry) review of research on convenience voting:
https://www.annualreviews.org/docserver/fulltext/pl/11/1/annurev.polisci.11.053006.190912.pdf?expires=1774472398&id=id&accname=guest&checksum=4CCCEB2034EED20DCF150C7F87AD6286
➕ 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/10.1080/17457289.2020.1814308
⚖️ Convenience voting can exacerbate socioeconomic biases in composition of voters:
https://bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.mit.edu/dist/9/583/files/2026/01/perverseconsequences_2005.pdf
📬 Voting by mail increases turnout but does so differently across groups:
https://bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.mit.edu/dist/9/583/files/2026/01/whovotesbymail_2001.pdf
🏛️ Background on the SAVE act:
🔎 https://bipartisanpolicy.org/article/five-things-to-know-about-the-save-act/
📰 https://www.ncsl.org/state-legislatures-news/details/9-things-to-know-about-the-proposed-save-america-act
⚠️ https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/new-save-act-bills-would-still-block-millions-americans-voting
📜 The SAVE act itself:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/22/text
🗺️ Voter ID laws by state:
https://ballotpedia.org/Voter_identification_laws_by_state
⚖️ Discussion of the constitutionality and legality of the SAVE act:
https://www.scotusblog.com/2026/03/the-supreme-court-and-voting-identification/
💸 Discussion of the poll tax issue regarding the SAVE act:
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5757040-save-act-voter-id-debate/