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What Data Visualization Can and Can't Tell Us About Pennsylvania's Voter ID Law | TechPresident

Thu, 08/09/2012 - 13:55 -- rprice

"It appears that Pennsylvania's new strict photo ID requirement may be in effect a racially discriminatory voting procedure," Tamara Manik-Perlman, Azavea's spacial data analyst, wrote in a recently published blog post.

But she admitted that the findings are limited in scope because the analysis is confined to the city of Philadelphia, the only geographic area for which Azavea has all the relevant datasets.