Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Local election offices often are missing on social media – and the information they do post often gets ignored

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par Thessalia Merivaki, Assistant Professor of American Politics, Mississippi State University
Mara Suttmann-Lea, Assistant Professor of Government, Connecticut College

Local election officials are trying to share voting information with the public on social media but may be missing some key platforms – and the voters who use them.

In early July 2022, for instance, young voters in Boone County, Missouri, complained that they had missed the registration deadline to vote in the county’s Aug. 2 primary election. They claimed no one “spread the word on social media.” The local election…

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