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Although a large scholarship exists on referendums, few have explored the impact of turnout levels on policy outcomes. There have only been two Swiss studies of turnout bias and referendum results, making the current study the first to employ U.S. state‐level referendums to test the turnout bias hypothesis. Based on 735 cases of morality policy over a four‐decade period (1980–2020) and a subset of...