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What US election officials could learn from Australia about boosting voter turnout

  • Written by Steven Mulroy, Law Professor in Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Election Law, University of Memphis
Australian voters check in and cast their ballots in a September 2019 federal election.Australian Electoral Commission

Not every country is plagued by rules that limit voters’ participation in elections, as is common in the United States.

In the past five years, restrictions on voting and voter registration purges have limited the number of...

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