Reducing Voter Waiting Time

Excessive voter waiting time is widely accepted to be a deterrent to voter turnout at elections. This paper describes a procedure for reducing voter waiting lime at the polls. While the underlying model employs a joint use of queueing theory and simulation, the procedure is a cookbook-like methodolo...

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Published in:Interfaces (Providence) 1980-10, Vol.10 (5), p.19-25
Main Author: Grant, Floyd H., III
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Clearinghouses
Data collection
government: elections
Local elections
Polls
simulation
Voter registration
Voter turnout
Voting
Voting machines
Voting precincts
Voting rights
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Summary:Excessive voter waiting time is widely accepted to be a deterrent to voter turnout at elections. This paper describes a procedure for reducing voter waiting lime at the polls. While the underlying model employs a joint use of queueing theory and simulation, the procedure is a cookbook-like methodology, to be used by the typically nontechnical election official, making complex modeling details transparent to him. This paper describes important aspects of model development and provides an illustration of the use of the methodology.
ISSN:0092-2102
1526-551X
DOI:10.1287/inte.10.5.19