[TRU Research] Data on voting by income

[Douglas Sexton]

I made a csv file with the census voter registration and income data combined. I also attached the json that was tricky to find with the income data and a script I used to convert it to csv in case anyone wants to check my work or use it for something else.

Haven't made the scatter plot yet! Will do that in a sec.

>     On 09/27/2020 8:13 PM sextondouglas <sextondouglas at comcast.net> wrote:
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>     Giving it a go right now
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>     From: Katie Wilson <katie at transitriders.org>
>     Date: 9/27/20 7:50 PM (GMT-08:00)
>     To: research at transitriders.org
>     Subject: [TRU Research] Data on voting by income
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>     Hey all,
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>     I’m going to shamelessly use this list to ask for some data help for a Crosscut column I’m working on, not directly TRU-related. Nationally there’s  a strong correlation between voting rates and income https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/01/income-gap-at-the-polls-113997 — as you might expect, poor people tend not to vote. I was looking for something about the strength of this trend in Washington state or King County, and I found  this story https://www.kuow.org/stories/the-neighborhoods-with-highest-and-lowest-voter-turnout-in-king-county , which is good but not super detailed. However, there is also this map and data set: https://www.communitiescount.org/voter-registration-voter-turnout
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>     I played around with the layers in the map a little, enough to know there’s a lot of interesting stuff in there. It looks like you can download .csvs, but I’m not adept enough with the format to figure out quickly how to get to what I want. I’m interested specifically in correlations between:
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>     1. Percent registered voters by census tract
>     2. 2019 general election voter turnout by precinct
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>     And, in the King County demographics layer —> Income:
>     A. Median household income
>     B. Percent below 200% of federal poverty level
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>     I’m interested to see how each of 1. and 2. correlate with each of A. and B. Perhaps in the form of scatter graphs? 
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>     If anyone is interested and has time to dig into this, let me know— and maybe reply on this list if you’re working on it so no one is duplicating efforts unless they want to.
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>     Thanks!
>     Katie
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>     Katie Wilson
>     General Secretary
>     Transit Riders Union
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