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Google polling place locator may have sent incorrect addresses

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Gizmodo: Google Tool May Have Wrong Polling Place Locations for Hundreds of Thousands of Voters

The takeaway:

Pundits may bemoan the lack of voter participation in our elections. But the problems with the Google tool’s data simply underline the fact that, even in this hyperconnected era, data about polling places across the country is still not kept in a single, standardized location, which undermines the efforts of companies like Google to create tools that make it simple and easy for voters to find up where they should show up come Election Day.



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