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'''Cost of Voting in the American States: 2022'''

[[File:Cost of Voting Index .jpeg|center|thumb|[https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/elj.2022.0041 Cost by Scot Schraufnagel, Michael J. Pomante II, and Quan Li Cost of Voting PDF]]]

The ease of voting across the American States is constantly changing. This research updates work that

established the relative ‘‘cost of voting’’ during presidential election cycles, in each of the 50 states,

from 1996 to 2020. A 2022 iteration is necessary to consider the flurry of new legislative initiatives that passed

state legislatures after the 2020 election cycle. Many states made voting easier by codifying changes composed

in response to the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. Other states, over concerns about voter fraud and seemingly at the prompting of former President Donald Trump, took a step backward and made voting more difficult. We learn that Oregon, which has the most progressive automatic voter registration process and all-mail

voting, maintains the first position as the easiest state to vote in. Mississippi (49th) and New Hampshire (50th)

stay at the bottom of the rankings as the most difficult states for voting. Their failure to move is largely due to

these states failing to keep pace with reforms like online voter registration, no excuse absentee voting, and

automatic voter registration, which have taken place in other states. Voters in Vermont will find voting

much less challenging in 2022 as the state has adopted nearly all the progressive reforms used in other states

that make voting easier, not the least of which is an all-mail balloting process

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 '''Cost of Voting in the American States: 2022'''
 [[File:Cost of Voting Index .jpeg|center|thumb|[https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/elj.2022.0041 Cost by Scot Schraufnagel, Michael J. Pomante II, and Quan Li Cost of Voting PDF]]]
+ The ease of voting across the American States is constantly changing. This research updates work that
+established the relative ‘‘cost of voting’’ during presidential election cycles, in each of the 50 states,
+from 1996 to 2020. A 2022 iteration is necessary to consider the flurry of new legislative initiatives that passed
+state legislatures after the 2020 election cycle. Many states made voting easier by codifying changes composed
+in response to the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. Other states, over concerns about voter fraud and seemingly at the prompting of former President Donald Trump, took a step backward and made voting more difficult. We learn that Oregon, which has the most progressive automatic voter registration process and all-mail
+voting, maintains the first position as the easiest state to vote in. Mississippi (49th) and New Hampshire (50th)
+stay at the bottom of the rankings as the most difficult states for voting. Their failure to move is largely due to
+these states failing to keep pace with reforms like online voter registration, no excuse absentee voting, and
+automatic voter registration, which have taken place in other states. Voters in Vermont will find voting
+much less challenging in 2022 as the state has adopted nearly all the progressive reforms used in other states
+that make voting easier, not the least of which is an all-mail balloting process
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 '''An Indigenous reservation has a novel way to grow food – below the earth’s surface'''