Election Ink and Turnout in a Partial Democracy

[...]few credible measures of turnout exist in emerging democracies. Studies of turnout and other types of voting behavior in emerging democracies might benefit from these insights, which highlight the value of considering institutional features of elections in addition to individual-level factors l...

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Published inBritish journal of political science Vol. 50; no. 3; pp. 1175 - 1191
Main Authors Ferree, Karen E., Jung, Danielle F., Dowd, Robert A., Gibson, Clark C.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.07.2020
Subjects
Democracy
Democratization
Elections
Experiments
Political science
Voter behavior
Voters
Uganda
get out the vote
turnout manipulation
turnout
election ink
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Summary:[...]few credible measures of turnout exist in emerging democracies. Studies of turnout and other types of voting behavior in emerging democracies might benefit from these insights, which highlight the value of considering institutional features of elections in addition to individual-level factors like age, education and partisanship emphasized in most extant work (Bratton, 1999, 2008; Bratton, Mattes, and Gyimah-Boadi, 2005; Isaksson, 2014; Kuenzi and Lambright, 2011, 2007). Inking as a Standard Electoral Practice Use of election ink dates to the early 1980s, when election officials began marking voters with ink detectable only with ultraviolet light. Ink offers a low-technology, inexpensive solution easily delivered with election materials and not requiring extensive training or electricity to implement.2 Polling station staff need only mark a finger (or other part of the hand) with indelible ink after voting.
ISSN:0007-1234
1469-2112
DOI:10.1017/S0007123418000121