Abstract
Mobile voting centers have taken many different forms, each tailored to one of a variety of specific rationales. Some mobile voting locations are designed to reach hard-to-access areas or voters with mobility issues or movement restrictions. Others are intended to catch potential voters in a high-traffic location. Still others have prepared mobile voting centers as emergency auxiliaries. It is an open question whether counties could benefit from mobile polls, and this preliminary report seeks to answer that question. First, it surveys examples of mobile voting centers’ success in different areas, categorized by rationale. From these, it draws common successes and challenges across each category. It concludes that mobile polling is most helpful as a narrowly-tailored resource for harder-to-reach communities and as an emergency auxiliary. Additionally, it recommends that counties seeking to invest in a mobile polling vehicle maximize their benefit by selecting one which is also capable of conducting voter outreach and registration during the off-season.
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