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Findings and Recommendations of the Special Committee on Service Voting

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

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The review is republishing below the findings and recommendations included in the Report recently prepared by the Special Committee on Service Voting of the American Political Science Association and presented to the President of the United States, who submitted it to Congress. The Committee was composed of the following members: Paul T. David, chairman, Robert Cutler, Samuel J. Eldersveld, Bertram M. Gross, Alexander Heard, Edward H. Litchfield, ex officio, Kathryn H. Stone, and William B. Prendergast, secretary.

In a letter of April 7, 1952, to Luther Gulick, President of the Association, President Truman expressed his appreciation for the work of the Committee and of the Association in the following words:

I wish to thank you, and the members of the Special Committee on Service Voting of the American Political Science Association, for the outstanding report on “Voting in the Armed Forces” which you sent me with your recent letter. This report more than fulfills my request to the American Political Science Association for an analysis of the progress made on soldier voting, and recommendations for steps to be taken to see that a maximum number of servicemen vote this year.

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American Political Science Review , Volume 46 , Issue 2 , June 1952 , pp. 512 - 523
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 1952

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1 Here, as elsewhere in this report, voting records are pronounced good or bad on the basis of the extent of participation in voting by those in military service. A State is said to have a good record if a relatively high percentage of service votes are cast and a bad record if the percentage is low.

2 The committee has been advised by the legal adviser to the Governor of Michigan that legislation is currently pending to advance the primary date and shorten other procedures in order to make ballots available at an earlier date.

3 In some circumstances ballots may be sent out earlier, depending on the date set for filing candidacy for local offices.

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