Do early voting opportunities mobilize underrepresented population groups? Or do the additional cognitive costs associated with early voting deter underrepresented groups from taking advantage of these opportunities? This article uses a multinomial logistic regression to consider the sociodemographic and attitudinal correlates of Election Day voting and early voting, when compared to nonvoting in four jurisdictions. It considers four countries with different types of early voting: days-long advance voting in Canada, week-long advance voting in Finland, on-demand postal voting in Germany, and automatic postal voting in Switzerland. This article finds that early voting is unlikely to mobilize commonly underrepresented population groups, with the exception of the elderly, who are often quite likely to take advantage of early voting opportunities.
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