[EL] time at the polling booth

[Jonathan Robinson]

Our friend Charles Stewart has a paper using data from the SC Election
Commission on log files that the machines make there which create a record
of how long it took a voter to vote a ballot. They use that information
(along with ballot length) to estimate out different things. Lots of
interesting statistics from 2012 and 2016.

https://web.archive.org/web/20200412081535/https://esra.wisc.edu/papers/JSC.pdf

On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 9:27 AM David Becker <dbecker at electioninnovation.org>
wrote:

> That’s actually true in all places where voters mark their ballots by hand
> as well. They mark their ballots in a booth, and then walk their ballot
> over to a scanner, where they may or may not be reminded to review their
> ballot before casting it. The amount of time for this process likely does
> not very much by state.
>
> David J. Becker
> Executive Director and Founder
> Center for Election Innovation & Research
> 1120 Connecticut Ave. NW, Suite 1040
> Washington, DC, 20036
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> ------------------------------
> *From:* Law-election <law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu> on
> behalf of Stephanie Singer <sfsinger at campaignscientific.com>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 8, 2020 9:23:00 AM
> *To:* Pildes, Rick <rick.pildes at nyu.edu>
> *Cc:* Election Law Listserv <law-election at uci.edu>
> *Subject:* Re: [EL] time at the polling booth
>
> I’m sure this depends also on whether voters mark their ballots by hand.
>
> For voters who don’t mark by hand, the definition of “in the actual
> polling booth” may be ambiguous. For example, in many Georgia polling
> places voters go to a touchscreen machine to mark their choices and then
> carry the piece of paper produced by the machine to an optical scanner. In
> between, they may have to pass a poll worker who reminds them to verify
> that the choices on the paper are correct. What’s the “polling booth” in
> this situation?
>
> On Jul 8, 2020, at 5:00 AM, Pildes, Rick <rick.pildes at nyu.edu> wrote:
>
> Does anyone know of data about how much time voters typically spend
> casting their ballots *in the actual polling booth*?  I’m sure this
> varies depending on how many races/issues are on the ballot, particularly
> in states that have a number of ballot initiatives to vote on in certain
> years.  I’m aware of the good piece by Dan Smith and Michael Herron in
> Electoral Studies, but that’s based on one polling place in a low turnout
> election in NH.
>
> I assume most voters spend less than five minutes, but I’d appreciate any
> information that might be out there, whether empirical studies or even good
> anecdotal reporting.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Best,
> Rick
>
> Richard H. Pildes
> Sudler Family Professor of Constitutional Law
> NYU School of Law
> 40 Washington Square So.
> NYC, NY 10014
> 212 998-6377
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