Voting-machine-allocation method could reduce voters' wait time by 36 percent

Too many voters have waited in extremely lengthy lines to cast ballots while voters at other precincts within the same county have had only minimal waits. In some instances, lengthy waits have caused people to leave without voting. A research team has created a new voting-machine allocation method, which when applied to 2008 presidential-election data from Franklin County, Ohio, reduced the average voter wait time by 36 percent in a computer simulation.

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