[EL] Time off to work

[David A. Holtzman]

Love the Freudian slip in the subject line.
Voting is work!
   :-)

On 11/12/2014 3:45 PM, Justin Levitt wrote:
>
> FWIW, the survey mentioned in the WonkBlog piece has a low-n, but it's 
> roughly consistent with larger past 
> <https://www.census.gov/hhes/www/socdemo/voting/publications/p20/2012/Table10.xls> 
> surveys 
> <https://www.census.gov/hhes/www/socdemo/voting/publications/p20/2008/Table%2014.xls> 
> in citing a conflicting schedule as one of the primary reasons 
> nonvoters didn't vote.
>
> There may be three different factors feeding this.  At least as of 
> 2008, 19 states didn't have laws allowing time off to vote.  Among the 
> other states, some require employers to allow time off to work, but 
> don't provide paid leave, which means that it actually costs hourly 
> employees money to take that time.  And I suspect (though I have no 
> data on this) that even in the states that require employers to 
> provide paid leave, few voters know of the legal requirement.
>
> For those who are interested, I canvassed the status of the existing 
> laws on time off to vote in this piece <http://ssrn.com/abstract=1393622>.
>
> -- 
> Justin Levitt
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> On 11/12/2014 2:10 PM, Rick Hasen wrote:
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>>
>>     "A ton of people didn't vote because they couldn't get time off
>>     from work" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68295>
>>
>> Posted onNovember 12, 2014 9:53 am 
>> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68295>byRick Hasen 
>> <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>>
>> WonkBlog 
>> <http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/11/12/a-ton-of-people-didnt-vote-because-they-couldnt-get-time-off-from-work/>.
>>
>> Posted inelection administration 
>> <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,voting 
>> <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=31>
>>
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