Happy #ToolThursday! Today I'm looking at ballot drop box and early vote locations in DC! https://apps.urban.org/features/equity-data-tool/index.html#

Residents can use the geographic distribution map to advocate for additional locations in the clusters of orange neighborhoods that are underrepresented by early vote/drop box locations and residents may have to travel further to vote early.

We also see that residents with a disability and seniors are overrepresented by drop boxes/early voting locations - this could be intentional in DC's placement of these resources since those populations can face additional barriers to traveling to early vote locations

Equitable access to voting locations is essential to democracy - and we hope people use the Spatial Equity Data Tool to examine access in their community. And if you need to find how/where you can vote early, here's a great place to start: https://www.vote.org/early-voting-calendar/

The DC early vote and drop box location data can be found here: https://opendata.dc.gov/search?q=vote 

And if you are using the tool/have feedback, we'd love to hear about it!