The Voting Location Siting Tool is now the Voting Location and Outreach Tool!

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CID Expands the Voting Location and Outreach Tool to Ohio, Hawaii, Virginia and Nevada!

Developed by the Center for Inclusive Democracy (CID) at USC, formerly the California Civic Engagement Project, the Voting Location and Outreach Tool is designed to provide assistance to county election offices in the placement of voting locations. The Tool was initially released for California in February 2018. The Voting Location and Outreach Tool now serves fourteen states representing 51% of the U.S. population: Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin.

The Voting Location and Outreach Tool’s user-friendly interactive web-based mapping system identifies areas within a half mile in square where voting locations will likely have the most success in serving voters. Areas are identified through a facility allocation model, incorporating local demographic and voting data. County election officials are able to find specific locations for consideration within these half-mile square areas using local knowledge of their county’s needs. 

CID notes that there are many factors that go into the decision-making process for site selection. Due to the limitations of data and the need to incorporate local on-the-ground knowledge by election officials and community members, the Voting Location and Outreach Tool does not identify exact voting locations to be sited.