INDIANAPOLIS (MIRROR INDY) — If you’re one of the more than 15,000 people who voted at St. Luke’s United Methodist Church on 86th Street this week, you probably waited in a long line .
The people behind the Indy Vote Times website want to help you avoid that.
The website features crowdsourced information on how long people are waiting to vote at the City-County Building and eight other satellite locations during early voting. On Election Day, voters will be able to check and submit data on more than 180 voting locations .
Roger Deetz is the CEO and co-founder of IN Tech for Progress, the organization behind the website. He said he hopes voters who use the tool can find a way to vote without a long wait, which can prevent some people from casting a vote at all.
“We know there are real barriers to getting out and spending time on our in-person voting system here,” he said.
People who want to submit information about their wait times can do so by answering a few simple questions on the group’s website. That information is fed into an algorithm that estimates the wait times based on “industry queuing standards,” Deetz said.