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Analysis of poll site wait times and improvements

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Council Member Restler inquires about the Board of Elections' analysis of poll site wait times and improvements. Michael Ryan discusses the recent implementation of wait time data collection and its potential for future improvements.

Ryan mentions that the recent certification of the election limits their current post-election analysis
The implementation of wait time data collection is highlighted as a new tool for analysis
Ryan emphasizes that this data will provide more concrete information compared to anecdotal reports
The Board of Elections plans to include this analysis in their annual report

Michael Ryan

1:59:14

So the timing of this hearing every year kind of puts us in a little bit of an information deficit since we just certified the election yesterday.

1:59:23

So we haven't turned our attention, to the post election analysis, but we will, and we'll look at those, locations that had more excessive wait times.

1:59:33

The the good news is the implementation this year and the trying out for the first time in a general election of the wait time, data will provide us, new, ground to, to, you know, to, analyze.

1:59:50

We didn't have that information in the past.

1:59:52

Everything was anecdotal.

1:59:54

So for the first time, we're gonna have some real data, other than just, oh, I've been waiting for 3 hours.

1:59:59

Right?

1:59:59

I mean so, yeah.

2:00:01

We're we're definitely taking a look at it.

2:00:03

We're going Plan

2:00:06

be included in our annual report, I'm sure.

2:00:08

But it it is a different system, for election day than it is, for early voting, and we're still working, you know, some of the kinks out of it.

2:00:17

But we think, it's a we know it's a work in progress, and we thought it was a good idea, to try it out.

2:00:23

Even though it was a presidential election and a and a big effort to do it, we thought it there's no perfect time to implement something like that, so we took the opportunity to do it now.

Lincoln Restler

2:00:03

on issuing a report?

2:00:05

It will

Paul Seamus Ryan

2:00:33

I think a step in

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