Explainers

Explainer: How Early Voting Works

"If you can bank votes early, it'll save you money down the stretch during GOTV, so you don't have to send those people mailed to remind them to turn out an election day. You don't have to text them, you don't have to call them."

Today, we’re digging into a topic that’s on everyone’s mind after the 2022 midterm elections and that’s the mechanics of absentee and early voting – which for short hand most people refer to as “AB/EV” and we’ll do for the rest of the show.

To help us understand all of the ins and outs is someone who has a lot of experience with get out the vote operations. Matt Dailer was most recently campaign manager for Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley. He was previously Deputy Political Director at the Republican National Committee and Executive Director of the West Virginia GOP.

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