[EL] Joan Growe on Turnout

[Carl Klarner]

Hi All,

It sounds like a great book and Secretary of State Joan Growe sounds like a
great person.

As far as "High voter turnout in Minnesota...arose from the traditions of
this state’s early Yankee and northern European immigrants," my read of
Political Science research is that cultural explanations generally should
be deemphasized and institutional explanations for high turnout (i.e., "wisely
chosen election policies") are more convincing.

Carl

On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 5:51 PM Abu El-Haj,Tabatha <taa53 at drexel.edu> wrote:

> Thanks so much for posting this to the list. I think it is super important
> to start thinking more seriously about where democracy is working well in
> the United States. Voter turnout is one measure, although it would be even
> better to know whether high voter turnout correlates with better governance
> (responsiveness, efficiency).
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> *From: *Law-election <law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu> on
> behalf of RuthAlice Anderson <ruthalice.anderson at comcast.net>
> *Date: *Tuesday, September 22, 2020 at 5:27 PM
> *To: *Election Law Listserv <law-election at uci.edu>
> *Subject: *[EL] Joan Growe on Turnout
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> I was looking at the new releases from the Minnesota Historical Society
> Press and saw that former Secretary of State Joan Growe wrote a book on
> increasing turnout. It came out last month. Since so much of election law
> interest is focused on turnout, I thought folks might be interested.
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> RuthAlice
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> Here is the description:
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> High voter turnout in Minnesota is no accident. It arose from the
> traditions of this state’s early Yankee and northern European immigrants,
> and it has been sustained by wisely chosen election policies. Many of these
> policies were designed and implemented during the twenty-four-year tenure
> of Minnesota secretary of state Joan Anderson Growe.
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> In inspiring and often funny prose, Growe recounts the events that framed
> her life and changed the state’s voting practices. She grew up in a
> household that never missed an election. After an astounding grassroots
> feminist campaign, she was elected to the state legislature in 1972; two
> years later, she was elected secretary of state, the state’s chief
> elections administrator. As one of the nation’s leading advocates for
> reliable elections and convenient voting, Growe worked with county
> officials to secure Election Day registration (used for the first time in
> 1974) as a Minnesota norm. She brought new technology into elections
> administration and promoted motor voter registration. And as an ardent
> feminist, she has encouraged and inspired scores of other women to run for
> office.
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> Part political history and part memoir, this book is a reminder to
> Minnesotans to cherish and protect their tradition of clean, open
> elections.
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> https://www.mnhs.org/mnhspress/books/turnout
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