The Voting Distance Gap — Polling Place Access

Year Comparison

Showing 2020 — pre-consolidation baseline

Map Metric

Voting Distance

Near1 mi3 mi6 mi10+ mi

Closed polling place

Open polling place

Distance by Race

About

Since the 2013 Shelby County v. Holder Supreme Court decision eliminated federal preclearance requirements, hundreds of polling places in formerly covered jurisdictions have been consolidated or closed. This project calculates network-based voting distance for every county in Georgia across two election cycles.

Click any county to see before/after voting distance data and demographic breakdown.

Data: Georgia Secretary of State · Census 2020 · ACS 5-Year · OpenStreetMap