Time To Vote

This research project is a collaboration among Northeastern University’s School of Law (NuLawLab, CPIAC, & CRRJ), College of Social Sciences and the Humanities (Political Science & Dukakis Center), Charlotte, North Carolina campus, and leading social good app developer Quadrant 2. We are: (1) deploying the custom mobile phone application ‘Time to Vote’ during the November 2020 and January 2021 Georgia run-off elections to measure the amount of time people wait in line to vote (and other voting line behavior) and collect observations about the polling place; (2) map the results in order to display any disparate geographic allocation of electoral resources the day after the election; and (3) combine our results with existing voting behavior research to assess the extent to which such allocation of electoral resources results in disenfranchisement of racial minorities in our two study locations.