Few fields in the political sciences have received as much attention as political participation and voter turnout. Observers see stagnating or decling voter turn out everywhere - but not in Sweden! The decline in turnout for both the national elections as well as for the elections to the European parliament was broken in the mid-2000s. One of the most viable explanations for the break in this trend was the reorganization of the system for absentee voting. What are further explanations?