PublicI / Us Polling Places

U.S. Polling Places (2012-2018)

Learn more about this data here: National data release sheds light on past polling place changes.

This data release contains standardized data on polling locations that were used in each election cycle since 2012 for all the states covered by the dataset. The initial release contains 30 states, with more to be added in the coming weeks.

Status

The initial release (2020-09-29) of this data contains data for the following states:

Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia and Wisconsin.

This release also includes data for the following states but they are missing one or more election cycles:

Georgia, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Mexico

Detailed information about current and future coverage in each state is available on the Status page.

Provenance

This data was primarily acquired through public records requests to state or county election officials. In some cases, when state election officials no longer had the data, they authorized the Voting Information Project to release any data that was available in their archives. The source of each election year’s data is mentioned in the state’s README file. Additionally, the state README file contains any additional caveats about the data that you need to be aware of.

This data set is only as good as the information that is provided by state and local officials. Often times polling places can be moved under "emergency changes" which might not be reflected in this dataset.

We have made our best effort to ensure that the standardized data reflects the source documents as closely as possible. However, if you find any errors or any missing data, please open an Issue or reach out to Pratheek Rebala at [email protected].

Acknowledgements

This data release is the result of a year-long effort and would not be possible without work of nearly a dozen staff members from the Center for Public Integrity & Stateline. If you find this data useful, we request that you please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Public Integrity here.

The following reporters were instrumental in preparing this dataset.

The Center for Public Integrity:

• Carrie Levine
• Pratheek Rebala
• Kristian Hernández
• Rui Kaneya
• Alex Ellerbeck
• Taylor Johnston
• Kimberly Cataudella
• Chris Zubak-Skees
• Joe Yerardi
• Joe Wertz

Stateline:

• Matt Vasilogambros
• Tim Henderson

License & Attribution

This data is being released under a CC BY 4.0 license. You are free to copy, redistribute and adapt this data. All that we ask is that you provide appropriate credit and a link to this license. You can view the full LICENSE here.