Does Free Food (and Other Election Festivities) Increase Voter Turnout?
EATER
OCTOBER 29, 2020
An 1846 painting by George Caleb Bingham shows the social activity that voting used to be, drinks and all. Historically, Election Day was seen as “a public holiday, involving plenty of stumping, debating, and parading,” Jill Lepore writes in a 2008 New Yorker article about how Americans used to vote. Eater is part of Vox Media.
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