Posted on 11/04/2019 5:23:54 PM PST by yesthatjallen
Districts with higher minority populations and lower incomes saw longer wait times to vote in the 2018 midterm elections, according to a study released Monday.
The study from the Bipartisan Policy Center and MIT analyzed data from polling places across the country and found the percentage of voters who waited 30 minutes or longer in line doubled to 6 percent since the last midterm election in 2014.
The study indicated that districts with 90 percent or more non-white voters had an increased average wait time of 32.4 minutes, compared to precincts with 10 percent or less non-white voters, which saw an average wait time of 5.1 minutes.
Fulton County in Georgia, which includes Atlanta, held the top spot for the longest wait times, followed by districts in South Carolina, Nevada and Washington, D.C.
Charles Stewart, one of the authors and a political science professor at MIT, suggested to The Washington Post that these communities with higher minority populations may not have the resources to fight long lines.
“The affluent neighborhood — if they are experiencing long lines, it might very well be that the county commissioner lives in the neighborhood and knows what buttons to push, and the people who live in that neighborhood have experience asking for things and getting them,” Stewart said. “Minorities might think, ‘When we ask, we don’t get things.’ Or maybe, ‘We don’t have time to press our case.’”
Longer wait times also corresponded to districts that had more renters than homeowners.
The authors told The Post they hope the study will help precincts to reorganize resources to combat long lines for the 2020 election as much as they can.
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I believe we all know neighborhood polling stations are manned (or is it womened?) by members of their community and Democratic districts control their own polling locations.
The claim here is affluent neighborhoods know the right people to get things done.
Why can't Democrats districts get their representatives to work for them?
Maybe because the Democrats were delivering them by the busload?
Who would want to work at a polling place where there’s liquor stores and Popye’s around the corner?
Dead people move soooo slowly
Dead people move soooo slowly
I read the voter pamphlet, mark the pamphlet and bring it with me to the polls. I get my ballot and mark it according to my choices. I am in and out in about 10 minutes. Can the denizens of less affluent neighborhoods not do the same thing?
(Note: This requires prior planning and a future orientation in one’s mindset...)
Well if other minority, low income districts are run like the ones in Connecticut then long lines are the result of incompetence and deliberate efforts behind the scenes to sow chaos.
Well if other minority, low income districts are run like the ones in Connecticut then long lines are the result of incompetence and deliberate efforts behind the scenes to sow chaos.
Its tough when you can’t remember what name you are supposed to be voting under.
Show up when they open, get right thru.
Voting 15 times takes time.
Voting at 110% of registered voters takes time.
I hope the wait is so long that they give up. Democrats will probably figure out how to count them anyhow.
“Minorities might think, ‘When we ask, we don’t get things.’ Or maybe, ‘We don’t have time to press our case.’”
Or is the difference that in white polling places, the voters move through the ballot very quickly, resulting in more rapid turnover at each voting machine, while in minority polling places the voters take forever to complete the process, backing the lines up unnecessarily?
Utterly worthless metric. What are the wait times by population density? What are the wait times for precincts with a lot of first-time voters? What are the wait times for precincts with majority languages other than English? Also, Epstein didn't kill himself.
Perhaps it takes minorities longer to vote. Either way, they are hardest hit
its because when they bus all those people in from other districts or even states it really bottles up the lines...
Should read. “Poor and minority voters in Democrat run poling places have to wait longer to vote.” Fixed it.
Maybe reading ability factors in. If a lot of people are slow readers, it will slow the lines.
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