[EL] using polling place finders

[Joseph Lorenzo Hall]

On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Doug Spencer <dougspencer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The registrars of voters in California keep a spreadsheet of all polling
> place addresses in their county. In the past, they have been very willing to
> share that list with me, even though I don't live in the county. Perhaps
> registrars in other states are similar. You would have to target individual
> counties, though I presume you have a discrete list of university campuses
> you are targeting, so that shouldn't be too difficult. There are several
> free services that will geocode large lists of addresses in one batch
> (here's Google, for example) which you can then plot and analyze.

For states that provide data to them, the Pew/Google Voting
Information Project (VIP) has this kind of data... e.g.,:

http://votinginfoproject.org/blog/view/hey_maryland_get_your_gadget

Not sure if there's an "omnibus" site for VIP yet where you can
interact with that kind of data for all the sates in which the project
has data. best, Joe

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Joseph Lorenzo Hall
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Media, Culture and Communication
New York University
https://josephhall.org/