Suppose They Held an Election and Almost Everybody Came!

An Alternative Approach to Estimating Who is Most Likely to Respond to Changes in Registration Laws

“…individuals make the decision to vote or abstain) and the data are readily available at the individual level, the literature I address here uses individual level estimates of voter turnout. Several scholars (see for exampleCalvert & Gilchrist, 1993;Jackson, Brown, & Wright, 1998;Martinez & Hill, 1999;and Knack & White, 2000) utilize data aggregated at the county or state levels and work from a slightly different perspective. For references to studies that do not investigate the consequences across individual or group traits, seeTraugott (2004) …”