1. Gaining Control over Polling Place Wait Times
Charles Stewart III
MIT
The Voting Experience: 2018 and the Future
Bipartisan Policy Center
February 14, 2019

2. The Elbow of Death

3. The Elbow of Death Average polling place: 80 voters/hour 3 poll books
40 sec.

4. The Elbow of Death
100
Voters
2.1 min.

5. The Elbow of Death
110
Voters
5.7 min.

6. The Elbow of Death
119
Voters
59 min.

7. Visit the Caltech/MIT Resource Allocation Calculators

8. Arrival rate: 40.1 voters/hr.
Average wait time: 4.5 min.
Arrival rate: 46.7 voters/hr.
Average wait time: 25.7 min.

9. Precinct 2
Precinct 1