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Absent-voting Laws1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

P. O. Ray
P. O. Ray*
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Northwestern University
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Legislative Notes and Reviews
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American Political Science Review , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , May 1924 , pp. 321 - 325
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 1924

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Footnotes

1

For previous summaries of absent-voting legislation, see American Political Science Review, VIII, 442–445 (Aug., 1914); X, 114–115 (Feb., 1916); XI, 116–117 (Feb., 1917); “320–332 (May, 1917); XII, 251–261 (May, 1918); 461–469, (Aug., 1918); XIII, 269–270 (May, 1919); and XVI, 463 (Aug., 1922).

References

2 Connecticut, Georgia, South Carolina, and Kentucky. An absent-voting law was passed in Kentucky in 1918, but was declared unconstitutional by a court of that state.

3 A further amendment was submitted in New York in 1923, extending the absent-voting privilege to inmates of soldiers' and sailors' homes.

4 General Acts of Alabama, 1919, No. 75, 620.

5 Laws of Utah, 1928, Ch. 99.

6 Laws of Mississippi, 1920, Ch. 155; Ibid., 1922, Ch. 256.

7 Laws of New York, 1920, Ch. 875.

8 Acts of Louisiana, 1921, No. 61.

9 Laws of Arizona, 1921, Ch. 117.

10 Statutes of California, 1928, Ch. 283.

11 Public and Private Acts of Arkansas, 1917, I, pp. 951 ff.

12 Ibid., 1923, Act 619.

13 Laws of Pennsylvania, 1923, No. 201; Laws of Nevada, 1921, Ch. 90; Ibid., 1923, Ch. 117; Laws of Delaware, 1923, Ch. 103; General Acts of Massachusetts, 1919, Ch. 289; Acts, of West Virginia, 1921, Ch. 55.

14 Laws of Vermont, 1919, No. 7; Ibid., 1921, No. 4; Session Laws of Wyoming, 1923, Ch. 101.

15 Idaho Session Laws, 1923, Ch. 57.

16 Laws of Montana, 1923, Ch. 151.

17 Laws of Utah, 1922, Ch. 99.

18 Laws of Washington, 1923, Ch. 58.

19 Minnesota Session Laws, 1923, Ch. 108.

20 General Laws of Oregon, 1923, Ch. 53. Acts amending previous absent-voting laws in comparatively unimportant details, were also passed in Florida (1920), Virginia (1922), and Texas (1923); see General Statutes of Florida, 1920, I, §§368. ff; Virginia Acts of Assembly, 1922, Ch. 505; and General Laws of Texas, 1921, ch. 113; Ibid., 1923, Ch. 149.

21 Laws of Nevada, 1923, Ch. 207.

22 It is reported that the State Tax Association actively sponsored a bill in the Montana legislature in 1923, which provided for the adoption of a much more comprehensive system of voting by mail in that state. Student of election systems will find much interesting material relating to absent-voting and other forms of votingby mail in the publications of the Mail Ballot Movement of Chicago, mimeo graphed and distributed by the More Democracy Press, 104 West Monroe St., Chicago.

23 Statutes of Ontario, 1923, Ch. 44.

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