[EL] data on polling locations closures & changes

Wed Sep 9 07:19:40 PDT 2020

There is a lot of stuff on the effect location of businesses and the effect of moving a business. I have seen the same analysis for community college locations.  The short of that is that you go where the students are by establishing  multiple campuses

The essence of the business model is you go where your customers are and you don’t move unless you are pulling out.

If you want good turnout you go where your voters are and advertise.

The best idea I ever saw on that was in the school district where I live.  In has 7 5a schools.  They use football stadium set ups that rival division 2 colleges.  Upwards of 10,000 on each of Friday afternoon Friday evening  Saturday afternoon and Saturday evening games.   In order to pass a huge bond issue they set up polling places at their stadiums.

The perfect voter Is one who has children playing in a stadium that will be improved by the passage of the bond issue. The announcer urged people to vote.  And the leaders of parental  organization for the bands and the twirlers and players were like precinct bosses.

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Subject: Re: [EL] data on polling locations closures & changes

Christian,

You’ll want to get in touch with the Center for Public Integrity.  In a couple of weeks, they will be releasing a county-level dataset of polling locations, giving the number of polling locations for each of the 2012, 2014, 2016 and 2018 general elections, as well as the number of polling places closed that year. For a majority of states, they are also including geocoded addresses of the polling places so users will be able to gauge the movement of the polling places.  I know about this as the result of a long interview I did last week on this dataset with Carrie Levine at the Center.  Her email is Carrie Levine clevine at publicintegrity.org<mailto:clevine at publicintegrity.org> and I’m sure they would be pleased to have academic researchers get in touch with them to facilitate studies that can be done after all the work they have done to put together this dataset.

Best,

Rick

Richard H. Pildes

Sudler Family Professor of Constitutional Law

NYU School of Law

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Subject: [EL] data on polling locations closures & changes

Hi all: Can anyone suggest recent academic research and/or data sources for polling location closures/consolidations in the South? I am trying to start a literature review and also see what data are available. There have been a number of popular press stories on the topic, but I am not finding as many systematic analyses of the number of polling locations across the last several elections as I thought there might be.

Thanks in advance. Feel free to reply privately or to the full list.

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University of Southern California
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