“Convenience Voting: the End of Election Day?”

Graeme Orr has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Alternative Law Journal).  Here is the abstract:

When and where we vote is a central element of the ritual of electoral democracy. In a trend across western democracies, there has been a significant shift towards ‘convenience’ voting. This article explores the history, rationale and law around postal and pre-poll voting (the dominant forms of convenience voting) and cautions against this trend deconstructing the communal experience of election day.

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