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The CID Voting Location Siting Toolis Expanding!

The Center for Inclusive Democracy (CID), formerly known as the California Civic Engagement Project, is expanding its Voting Location Siting Tool to serve a total of ten states representing 43% of the U.S. population: Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Wisconsin. Originally developed in 2018 by CID, a neutral academic research center at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy, this growing public resource will help inform the equitable siting of U.S. voting locations in the November 2020 General Election. Currently, the Siting Tool is available for California and Colorado. The Siting Tool will be expanded to all California counties and launched in Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Wisconsin over the summer and early fall of 2020.

The Voting Location Siting Tool’s user-friendly interactive web-based mapping system identifies areas within a half mile in diameter where vote centers and polling places would likely have the most success in serving voters. Areas are identified through a facility allocation model, incorporating local demographic and voting data. County election officials are able to find specific locations for consideration within these half-mile diameter areas using local knowledge of their county’s needs.

The success of the CID Voting Location Siting Tool has been noted by many registrars and voter advocacy groups working toward the equitable siting and implementation of voting locations. The California and Colorado Secretaries of State currently recommend that their state election officials use the tool in their siting allocation process.