Percent of Eligible Voters Not Registered: The percentage of voting age citizens who are not registered to vote.Percent of County Voting Age Citizens: The number of citizens in this census tract who are voting age divided by the county's total number of voting age citizens.Government POIs: These include post offices, fire stations, libraries, town halls, public buildings, police stations and courthouses.Non-Government POIs: These include schools, hospitals, kindergartens, community centers, arts centers, colleges, universities, malls, nursing homes, supermarkets, hostels and motels.OpenStreetMap Points of Interest: OpenStreetMap Points of Interest (POIs) are intended to help identify potential voting sites, or highlight that an area has some concentration of activity.Transit stops have been ranked in the model from low to high use based on the frequency of service to the individual stop. Transit Stops: Transit stops indicate the location of transit stops in the county and are sourced from regional GTFS data feeds.The presence of a prior voting location should indicate a potentially suitable voting site area. This data is sourced from the Voting Information Project. Voting Locations: Voting locations may include several layers, including 2020 General Election and/or 2020 Presidential Primary voting locations.2020 General Election Precinct Boundaries: 2020 General Election precincts sourced from the Harvard Dataverse Voting and Election Science Team.Tribal Lands: Federally recognized American Indian reservations and off-reservation trust land areas and state-recognized American Indian reservations areas.These sites can be used to identify nearby sites with similar scores if the suggested site does not contain an actual reasonable voting location.
where a vote site could potentially be located.
Based on Model: Additional 10% of sites that were generated from the Facility Location Model which minimize the total travel cost for all people in the county.These sites assume the existence of the Suggested Sites. Additional Suggested Sites: Sites that are suggested if additional sites over the required minimum are desired.This reflects the minimum number of sites required. Suggested Sites: Sites that have been identified as being strategically located to voters.The High/Med/Low are based on the distribution of scores for each component and ranked using quantile classification. The individual components of the composite score are displayed in the legend as being either High, Med or Low. Sites are colored based on their relative rank out of all potential sites within a county and are classified into quantiles. Data Descriptions Suggested Voting Location Data