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      Voter Registration Costs and Disenfranchisement: Experimental Evidence from France
      22 Mar 2016Working Paper Summaries

      Voter Registration Costs and Disenfranchisement: Experimental Evidence from France

      by Celine Braconnier, Jean-Yves Dormagen, and Vincent Pons
      In most democracies, voter registration is automatic and done by the state. But in a few others, such as the United States and France, registration is self-initiated: citizens who wish to vote must register first, and they need to do so again each time they move. This study examines the effects of canvassing and home registration of unregistered and misregistered citizens in 10 French cities.
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      In most democracies, voter registration is automatic and done by the state. But in a few others, such as the United States and France, registration is self-initiated: citizens who wish to vote must register first, and they need to do so again each time they move. This study examining the effects of canvassing and home registration of unregistered and misregistered citizens in 10 French cities found that the self-initiated registration system excludes a large fraction of the citizenry that is otherwise prepared to vote. Facilitating voter registration would likely increase the social and ethnic representativeness of the electoral rolls and the actual vote.

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      • Working Paper Publication Date: March 2016
      • HBS Working Paper Number: 16-098
      • Faculty Unit(s): Business, Government and International Economy
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