So say the available data, according to Massachusetts Institute of Technology political scientist . He decided to see what he could learn by examining statistics on Election Day waits and sums up his findings in a research paper titled "."
Stewart says the national average wait for white voters was 12 minutes, while that same metric for African-Americans was 23 minutes. For Hispanics, it was 19 minutes.
Although it would be easy to jump to the conclusion that some form of discrimination might have been at work, Stewart suggests that other factors could be at play, such as geography.
