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Voting Ambience Helps AMS
Keith Wagstaff. Four Ways to boost the dismal turnout in Local Elections The Week
Magazine. September 2013. http://theweek.com/article/index/249385/4-ways-to-
boost-the-dismal-turnout-in-local-elections
Aside from a sense of civic pride and a sticker, the rewards of voting can seem meager compared to the costs, which usually involve waiting inside a school gymnasium. It wasn't always like this. In the s, "voters at the polls talked with friends, threw down shots of free whiskey, listened to lively entertainment, and generally had a good time" according to a 2006 study titled, Putting the Party Back into Politics" Obviously, passing out shots of Jim Beam wouldn't fly today, but the Yale researchers found that throwing
an Election Day poll party with "food, fun, and music" — all complying with state and federal voter
laws, of course — increased voter turnout by 6.5 percent and cost less than direct-mail campaigns.
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