Analysis: Republicans don’t complain much about polling places at senior centers
We can pivot from Mitchell’s derision about college-age voters to see how the system is rigged in the favor of her party and her cohort.a report looking at shifts in where polling places were located. For that analysis, they compiled polling location data from a number of states, including descriptions of those places.
Nationally, there are three polling places in senior facilities for every two at a college. What is this old people effort that they do? They basically put the polling place next to the senior center so they just have to roll out of bed, vote, and go back to bed.There are caveats, of course. Anyone can vote at any of these polling places. Faculty or neighbors can vote at the college; neighbors can vote at senior centers.
One of the most common locations for a polling place is a church. On average, 1 in 7 polling locations in the states for which CPI compiled data was in a church — excluding synagogues and mosques .Mitchell doesn’t care about polling places at senior centers or in the Villages because those voters tend to vote for the candidates she supports. Mitchell and her allies, like those Republican voters, oppose making it easier for college students to vote because they don’t want college voters to vote.
It is, however, a good reminder that one reason older voters vote more heavily than younger ones is that the systems in place make it easier for them to do so — often because they are carefully tended by people like Mitchell.
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