Journal article
Waiting to Vote in the 2016 Presidential Election: Evidence from a Multi-county Study
Political research quarterly, Vol.73(2), pp.439-453
06/2020
DOI: 10.1177/1065912919832374
Abstract
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.
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- Title: Subtitle
- Waiting to Vote in the 2016 Presidential Election: Evidence from a Multi-county Study
- Creators
- Robert M Stein - Rice University, Houston, TX, USAChristopher Mann - Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, USACharles Stewart - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USAZachary Birenbaum - Rice University, Houston, TX, USAAnson Fung - Rice University, Houston, TX, USAJed Greenberg - Rice University, Houston, TX, USAFarhan Kawsar - Rice University, Houston, TX, USAGayle Alberda - Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT, USAR. Michael Alvarez - California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USALonna Atkeson - University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USAEmily Beaulieu - University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USANathaniel A Birkhead - Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USAFrederick J Boehmke - University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USAJoshua Boston - Washington University in St. Louis, MO, USABarry C Burden - University of Wisconsin–Madison, WI, USAFrancisco Cantu - University of Houston, Houston, TX, USARachael Cobb - Suffolk University, Boston, MA, USADavid Darmofal - University of South Carolina, Columbia, USAThomas C Ellington - Wesleyan College, Macon, GA, USATerri Susan Fine - University of Central Florida, Orlando, Fl. USACharles J Finocchiaro - University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USAMichael D Gilbert - University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USAVictor Haynes - Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA, USABrian Janssen - University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USADavid Kimball - University of Missouri–St. Louis, MO, USACharles Kromkowski - University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USAElena Llaudet - Suffolk University, Boston, MA, USAKenneth R Mayer - University of Wisconsin–Madison, WI, USAMatthew R Miles - Brigham Young University—Idaho, Rexburg, ID, USADavid Miller - Washington University in St. LouisLindsay Nielson - Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, USAYu Ouyang - Purdue University Northwest, Hammond, IN, USACostas Panagopoulos - Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USAAndrew Reeves - Washington University in St. Louis, MO, USAMin Hee Seo - Washington University in St. Louis, MO, USAHaley Simmons - University of Mississippi, University, MS, USACorwin Smidt - Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USAFarrah M Stone - Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USARachel VanSickle-Ward - Pitzer College, Claremont, CA, USAJennifer Nicoll Victor - George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USAAbby Wood - University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USAJulie Wronski - University of Mississippi, University, MS, USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Political research quarterly, Vol.73(2), pp.439-453
- DOI
- 10.1177/1065912919832374
- ISSN
- 1065-9129
- eISSN
- 1938-274X
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 06/2020
- Academic Unit
- Public Policy Center (Archive); Political Science
- Record Identifier
- 9983982714302771
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