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<p class="MsoNormal">Students might also be encouraged to examine voting materials by a newly published research report titled “U.S. State Policy Contexts and Mortality of Working-Age Adults” that details the life-and-death implications of their voting decisions
(<a href="https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0275466">https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0275466</a>). Here’s a portion of the abstract:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="color:#202020;background:white">We modeled the associations between working-age mortality rates and state policies during 1999 to 2019. . . . More conservative marijuana policies and more liberal policies
on the environment, gun safety, labor, economic taxes, and tobacco taxes in a state were associated with lower mortality in that state. . . . Simulations indicate that changing all policy domains in all states to a fully liberal orientation might have saved
171,030 lives in 2019, while changing them to a fully conservative orientation might have cost 217,635 lives.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#202020;background:white">The report offers opportunity for lively class discussion of research methods, statistical images, and provocative findings and conclusions as well as rhetoric (e.g., the words
<i>ethics</i> and <i>morality </i>are avoided altogether).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sam<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Sam Dragga<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Professor Emeritus<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Texas Tech University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">sam.dragga@ttu.edu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">1-806-543-6099<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">ATTW-L <attw-l-bounces@attw.org> on behalf of Rob Rowan <rmrowan@xmission.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, October 26, 2022 at 6:58 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>"attw-l@attw.org" <attw-l@attw.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[ATTW-L] Professional Communication and Voting<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#FFEB9C"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:black">This email originated outside TTU. Please
<a href="https://askit.ttu.edu/phishing">exercise caution</a>!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Early voting has started in many states. Remind your eligible students to go vote.<br>
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Voter information sites like BallotPedia (<a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fballotpedia.org%2FMain_Page&data=05%7C01%7Csam.dragga%40ttu.edu%7C208a4b91e4f24f0e342408dab75a717c%7C178a51bf8b2049ffb65556245d5c173c%7C0%7C1%7C638023896434307524%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=VQlftA2xV7FtOmncZyLlZO3vhzMaqDdd7%2F78ddXmDIQ%3D&reserved=0">https://ballotpedia.org/Main_Page</a>)
and county Board of Elections websites present a good opportunity to analyze public-facing professional communication on a topic of great civic importance.
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As an example, here's the Cuyahoga County, Ohio BoE site: <a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fboe.cuyahogacounty.gov%2F&data=05%7C01%7Csam.dragga%40ttu.edu%7C208a4b91e4f24f0e342408dab75a717c%7C178a51bf8b2049ffb65556245d5c173c%7C0%7C1%7C638023896434307524%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=2qHR8mIsUk0u9crSg%2F3TqJaaSSqntpb6f2L7m6rcV3c%3D&reserved=0">
https://boe.cuyahogacounty.gov/</a><br>
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For the lucky few who live in Ulster County, NY, voters may be able to pick up this wonderful sticker designed by contest winner Hudson Rowan (no relation):<br>
<img border="0" width="400" height="400" style="width:4.1666in;height:4.1666in" id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D8EA20.BDE69D10"><br>
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<a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Felections.ulstercountyny.gov%2Fi-voted-sticker-contest%2F&data=05%7C01%7Csam.dragga%40ttu.edu%7C208a4b91e4f24f0e342408dab75a717c%7C178a51bf8b2049ffb65556245d5c173c%7C0%7C1%7C638023896434307524%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=QIyyHwKYad6%2FYrScuRHcg%2Boho2w5Nz6AQF4DUWy%2BPeM%3D&reserved=0">https://elections.ulstercountyny.gov/i-voted-sticker-contest/</a><br>
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This contest entry absolutely demolished the competition--there's probably an interesting visual rhetoric discussion to be had here too.<br>
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Regards,<br>
Rob Rowan<br>
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Robert M. Rowan, PhD<br>
Lecturer, Department of English<br>
Case Western Reserve University<br>
<a href="mailto:rmrowan@xmission.com">rmrowan@xmission.com</a> or <a href="mailto:rmr122@case.edu">
rmr122@case.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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