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The policy seems like a net win, and the downsides seem like they could be addressed.
Interesting to hear early voting decreases voter turnout, I'll have to go look into that and see if there wasa a hypothesis as to why. That seems really odd to me
Edit: the conclusions drawn in the first linked article point mostly to the circumstances of the election rather than the implementation of early voting as a reason for the lack of a substantial increase in voter turnout. The second article is not available to the public but in part of what is publicly available, it suggests that the implementation of early voting alone isn't going to increase voter turnout, which kinda suggests their findings are more complicated than just "early voting decreases voter turnout". The conclusion in the linked blog post seems to be oversimplifying and slightly misstating the research from what I can tell, but the research is super interesting anyway
Link to first study "by an American university" (super odd way to contextualize the research 😅) https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5A1lFQvBa-iMzJmOWI0OGItMTRlZi00MjQwLTk4YzEtY2QxY2Q3NjEzZmZk/view?resourcekey=0--JUfo8uwxWjoDYG8yKyoFQ
Link to the second study, not available to the public. I didn't try like research gate or anything like that though https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ajps.12063
I'd speculate that "today isn't a good day for me to vote" is simply an uncommon reason for people not voting. Probably more common are things like:
Doesn't early voting make the line shorter and give you more flexibility in polling location? (I don't actually know, I've not voted early before)
In general I'm sure it helps wait times but I've seen there be waves of voters at polling places. People may try to go during lunch or just after work so some times of day can have a really long line. I've done it before where I've just driven by, seen 50 people waiting in the hot sun, and I came back later. That was in elections long gone where I wasn't genuinely freaked out about the wrong side winning. This year I'm not turning around and I'll wait hours to cast my vote if that's what it takes.