Science news articles about 'polling places'

... higher marks to precincts staffed by new poll workers recruited from local schools and businesses ... shows voters gave a more positive evaluation to polling places with the new recruits. Further, voters ...

... the new threat. AttackDog works by factoring in all the characteristics of an election system--the number of polling places, the type of voting machine used, the number of poll workers, and so forth ...

Voters were more likely to approve a school-funding initiative if they cast their ballot at a school, new research shows.

(PhysOrg.com) -- The lights may matter. So may the signs, the knowledge of poll workers and whether the location has been used as a polling place in the past.

... precautions to minimize the chance of errors: Bring a marked-up sample ballot to the polling place. This will enable voters to quickly and accurately transfer the information from the sample ...