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https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/early-voting-laws-probably-dont-boost-turnout/We also see no increase in turnout at the state level. Massachusetts is the most recent state to implement early voting, which it did for the 2016 election. Turnout in Massachusetts that year was 67 percent — only one point higher than in 2012. That’s also the same amount that national turnout increased by, so it’s hard to attribute the state’s increase to early voting. Likewise, turnout in Massachusetts in 2016 was 8 points higher than the national average. That’s exactly the same as it was in 2012 and 2014, before early voting was implemented,3 so it looks like early voting has had little effect on turnout there so far.
Turnout also hasn’t increased in states where early voting is well established, such as Ohio, which enacted early voting4 in 2005. Its turnout rates have held steady relative to the national average in almost every election from 2000 to 20165 — between 2 and 8 points higher than the country as a whole.6 There is certainly no sign of consistently higher turnout post-2005.
Then dont do it, making voting easier does not justify the corruption of the result by not having everyone voting at the same time, using the same available information. Also making elections easy for the citizens trying to entice them into voting is not even a good thing as 538 claims....Let the people who care the most vote, make it harder to vote, then we will get a better result.