What impacts election turnout?
While various factors could impact voter participation, UF researchers were specifically interested in exploring the relationship between abstention rate and the number of candidates.
In their study, researchers drew from 20 years of election data in Brazil between 2000-2020, totaling more than 60,000 elections. The results of their data analysis found a surprising factor that impacts voter participation.
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