“I Voted” stickers are a ubiquitous sight on American election days, a way for voters to promote civic participation in a country where more people didn’t vote in the most recent presidential election than voted for the winner. A new paper from researchers at the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) examines these stickers’ influence on people’s voting intentions, and asks whether different language choices in this approach to voter outreach might make a bigger impact on civic engagement.
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