"Racial Disparities in Voting Wait Times: Evidence from Smartphone Data" ("residents of entirely-black neighborhoods waited 29% longer to vote and were 74% more likely to spend more than 30 minutes at their polling place") - Election Law Blog

“Racial Disparities in Voting Wait Times: Evidence from Smartphone Data” (“residents of entirely-black neighborhoods waited 29% longer to vote and were 74% more likely to spend more than 30 minutes at their polling place”)

New draft paper from M. Keith Chen, Kareem Haggag, Devin G. Pope, and Ryne Rohla. Abstract: Equal access to voting is a core feature of democratic government. Using data from hundreds of thousands of smartphone users, we quantify a racial … Continue reading “Racial Disparities in Voting Wait Times: Evidence from Smartphone Data” (“residents of entirely-black neighborhoods waited 29% longer to vote and were 74% more likely to spend more than 30 minutes at their polling place”)