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Absentee May Not Encourage Voting

Host Bob Edwards speaks with Curtis Gans of the Committee for the Study of the American Electorate about the upcoming elections. He says absentee ballots are supposed to enable people to vote, but they may actually discourage voting. Gans says it's a case of voting reforms that backfired. (3:40)

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