Inspired by Matthew Blake’s most recent post, I just went down a digital rabbit hole on the observed impacts of bad weather on voter turnout. The tl;dr: Research in the U.S. and abroad shows rain and snow events cause modest but significant turnout declines. In 2023, Danish researchers revisited 34 earlier studies looking at elections in North America, Europe and Asia. They found that turnout drops 1 to 2 percentage points per inch of rainfall. An older (2007) look at 14 U.S. Presidential elections found turnout declines of just under 1 percentage point per inch of rain and just under…
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