Potential impacts of extended advance voting on voter turnout : Incidences potentielles de la prolongation du vote par anticipation sur la participation électorale

But the precise effects are somewhat surprising: the greater the distance from precinct site, the greater the propensity to vote by mail, and the greater the Literature Review 11 distance from early voting sites, the greater the propensity to vote at the precinct. [...] At this last stage, they examined whether turnout is higher in countries where registration is compulsory, where it is possible to register on the day of the election, where the government is responsible for taking the initiative to register electors, or where the electoral legislation facilitates the exercise of the right to vote (by allowing voting by mail, by proxy or in advance, and by holding [...] On the one hand, each of the three specific variables that are of direct interest here – holiday voting, advance voting, and provisions of two consecutive regular voting days – has the expected positive coefficient, but two of them do not reach the standard levels of statistical significance, and the third is significant only at the 10-percent level. [...] In the last 10 days of the election campaign, the CES asked respondents if they had voted in advance.14 The analysis below is restricted to those respondents who were interviewed for the first time in the last 10 days of the campaign. [...] In addition, the findings concerning the relationship between contact with a political party and voting in advance suggest (in line with the findings reported by Oliver in the U. S.) that parties have an important role to play in the mobilization of people to vote in advance.