Ballot Collection and Native American Voters: An Assessment of Benefits and Costs

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Daniel McCool, Weston McCool
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This article assesses the benefits and alleged costs of ballot collection on Indian reservations. Using the conceptual frame of the “cost of voting,” the research analyzes the impact of ballot collection by examining trends in vote-by-mail programs, socioeconomic variables, distance to polls and mail locations, and US Postal Service delivery on Indian reservations. It then uses a statistical analysis to test the claim that ballot collection leads to voter fraud. Our analysis reveals that ballot collection offers significant opportunities to reduce inequality in voter costs for Native American voters but finds no support for the hypothesis that ballot collection leads to fraud. These findings have significant implications for the voting rights of Native Americans, who tend to rely on ballot collection more than other voters. This research also offers a modification to the concept of voter costs.
选票收集与美国原住民选民:效益与成本评估
本文评估了在印第安人保留地收集选票的益处和据称的成本。该研究使用 "投票成本 "这一概念框架,通过考察邮寄选票计划的趋势、社会经济变量、投票站和邮寄地点的距离以及美国邮政局在印第安人保留地的投递情况,分析了选票收集的影响。然后,研究使用统计分析来检验选票收集会导致选民舞弊的说法。我们的分析表明,选票收集为减少美国原住民选民投票成本的不平等提供了重要机会,但没有发现选票收集导致舞弊的假设得到支持。这些发现对美国原住民的投票权具有重要影响,因为他们往往比其他选民更依赖于选票收集。这项研究还对选民成本的概念进行了修正。
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