Abstract
Once World War II ended in the summer of 1945, attention toward doing anything more for absentee voters and military voters in particular waned. As was the case after the Civil War, efforts related to the armed services shifted to demobilization, transporting the men home, and getting them back into civilian life. The general euphoria of winning the war overshadowed any interest in the military voter enfranchisement.
Our experience during and after World War II conclusively demonstrates that unless early action is taken, hundreds of thousands of servicemen and women of voting age will be deprived of their constitutional right to vote this year.
Harry S. Truman, 19521
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Inbody, D.S. (2016). Federalizing the Vote: UOCAVA. In: The Soldier Vote. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137519207_6
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