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Leading up to this year’s Election Day results, University of Rhode Island engineering professor Gretchen Macht and her team were thinking about how the votes would tally but not for the reasons you’d think. .
In 2016, 137.5 million Americans voted in the presidential election. For some, casting their ballot wasn’t easy. Six years later, voters are the most pola
In 2016, 137.5 million Americans voted in the presidential election. For some, casting their ballot wasn’t easy. Six years later, voters are the most polarized they’ve been in decades. .
KINGSTON â The 2020 election is complete, but a team of researchers at the University of Rhode Island is still crunching the numbers â not the number of votes, but the statistics used to determine the efficiency of in-person voting. I can say with confidence, from a URI VOTES perspective, that we had a successful election season this fall, said Gretchen Macht, director of the URI Voter OperaTions and Election Systems (URI VOTES) project. Some lines took longer than an hour, while others averaged 20 minutes, which was nothing out of the ordinary. Working with faculty and students from Auburn University and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Macht s research group collected data in Rhode Island, Nebraska and Los Angeles.