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The plan eliminates no‑excuse mail voting for federal races; MIT’s Election Data Lab finds mail ballots reduce average polling‑place line‑wait times by:

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Subtracting mail ballots forces those voters into physical queues—raising average waits by 14 minutes. Long lines don’t just annoy; research shows they deter up to 3 percent of marginal voters, a hid...

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