Waiting to Vote in the 2016 Presidential Election: Evidence from a Multi-county Study

Autor:	Joshua Boston, Costas Panagopoulos, Michael D. Gilbert, Victor Haynes, David C. Kimball, Nathaniel A. Birkhead, Farrah M. Stone, Francisco Cantú, Matthew R. Miles, Charles A. Kromkowski, Min Hee Seo, Andrew Reeves, David Miller, Farhan Kawsar, Frederick J. Boehmke, Julie Wronski, Lonna Rae Atkeson, Brian Janssen, David Darmofal, Thomas C. Ellington, Robert M. Stein, Rachel VanSickle-Ward, Christopher B. Mann, Jed Greenberg, Elena Llaudet, Barry C. Burden, Abby K. Wood, Lindsay Nielson, Charles Stewart, Gayle Alberda, Terri Susan Fine, Anson Fung, R. Michael Alvarez, Yu Ouyang, Haley Simmons, Charles J. Finocchiaro, Rachael V. Cobb, Corwin D. Smidt, Kenneth R. Mayer, Jennifer Nicoll Victor, Zachary Birenbaum, Emily Beaulieu
Rok vydání:	2019
Předmět:	0508 media and communications Sociology and Political Science Presidential election Political science 05 social sciences 050602 political science & public administration Voting behavior 050801 communication & media studies Polling Public administration 0506 political science
Zdroj:	Political Research Quarterly. 73:439-453
ISSN:	1938-274X 1065-9129
DOI:	10.1177/1065912919832374
Popis:	This paper is the result of a nationwide study of polling place dynamics in the 2016 presidential election. Research teams, recruited from local colleges and universities and located in twenty-eight election jurisdictions across the United States, observed and timed voters as they entered the queue at their respective polling places and then voted. We report results about four specific polling place operations and practices: the length of the check-in line, the number of voters leaving the check-in line once they have joined it, the time for a voter to check in to vote (i.e., verify voter’s identification and obtain a ballot), and the time to complete a ballot. Long lines, waiting times, and times to vote are closely related to time of day (mornings are busiest for polling places). We found the recent adoption of photographic voter identification (ID) requirements to have a disparate effect on the time to check in among white and nonwhite polling places. In majority-white polling places, scanning a voter’s driver’s license speeds up the check-in process. In majority nonwhite polling locations, the effect of strict voter ID requirements increases time to check in, albeit modestly.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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