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Efforts To Promote Voting By Mail May Help Ensure Strong Voter Turnout Among Both Young And Old Voters In Cuyahoga County's Fall 2020 Election, Mark J. Salling Phd, Gisp
Efforts To Promote Voting By Mail May Help Ensure Strong Voter Turnout Among Both Young And Old Voters In Cuyahoga County's Fall 2020 Election, Mark J. Salling Phd, Gisp
All Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs Publications
Voting by mail (VBM) has been a well-established practice in the State of Ohio for many years before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. In Cuyahoga County's Fall 2016 election, for example, more than 193,000 voters (31.8% of all voters) chose the VBM option to cast their ballots.
Individual voter records are confidential. Yet in a previous Focus on Facts the author described a method to analyze publicly available voter records that produces reliable estimates to describe the demographics of who votes (race, age, neighborhood, etc.).
Figure 1 reveals how the use of VBM varied by age group among Cuyahoga …
Vote By Mail By Race And Hispanic Ethnicity In Cuyahoga County, Mark J. Salling Phd, Gisp
Vote By Mail By Race And Hispanic Ethnicity In Cuyahoga County, Mark J. Salling Phd, Gisp
All Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs Publications
The current arguments to increase voting by mail rather than at the polls may result in suppressing voting by Black and Hispanic voters unless outreach to those populations can increase their confidence in and preference for using the postal service to cast their votes in the 2020 general election and beyond. This is a particularly important in the coming election due to the likely exposure to COVID‐19 at the polling places should the pandemic be still a significant health risk at places of congregation.
From Economic Slowdown To Recession, Iryna Demko, Iryna V. Lendel, Merissa Piazza
From Economic Slowdown To Recession, Iryna Demko, Iryna V. Lendel, Merissa Piazza
All Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs Publications
The most recent recession, known as the “Great Recession,” began in December 2007 and ended in June 2009. The recession affected the entire U.S., but its impacts were not uniform. Unfortunately, Ohio was a primary example of the recession’s iniquities as the recession lasted five months longer here compared to the rest of the nation. Now, with the COVID-19 pandemic, we face further uncertainty and another recession with economic activity contracting “sharply and abruptly” across the entire U.S. This research brief examines the state of the economy in the U.S. and Northeast Ohio pre-pandemic (2019) and provides an analysis of …