{"id":6727,"date":"2017-03-01T16:32:48","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T15:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/openstate.mu.openstate.eu\/en\/?p=6727"},"modified":"2023-03-15T14:35:50","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T13:35:50","slug":"colleges-on-average-at-350-meter-from-closest-polling-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/2017\/03\/colleges-on-average-at-350-meter-from-closest-polling-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Colleges on average at 350 meter from closest polling station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On average, an MBO student who want to vote near his or her school, will have to walk 350 meters to the nearest polling station. Of the 432 vocational institutions there are 9 locations at a distance of over a kilometer. There are 57 schools where a polling station is within 100 meters away.<\/p>\n<p>To get more young people to the polls on March 15 a number of initiatives are underway. One is to get ballot boxes to youngsters. Since Open State Foundation harvested <a href=\"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/nl\/2017\/02\/open-state-foundation-traceert-alle-stembureaus\/\">all voting locations<\/a>, we can also see what the average distance is between vocational schools and the nearest voting locations.<\/p>\n<p>We looked at the list of addresses of vocational schools which can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duo.nl\/open_onderwijsdata\/databestanden\/mbo\/adressen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">data.duo.nl<\/ a> and the distance between the locations of these schools and the nearest polling stations. The data with polling stations includes <a href=\"http:\/\/data.openstate.eu\/dataset\/locaties-stembureaus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">9,017 polling stations in 388 municipalities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><embed src=\"https:\/\/openstate.carto.com\/viz\/86392db0-fe94-11e6-9148-0ecd1babdde5\/embed_map\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen width=\"100%\" height=\"520\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/embed><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On average, an MBO student who want to vote near his or her school, will have to walk 350 meters to the nearest polling station. Of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/2017\/03\/colleges-on-average-at-350-meter-from-closest-polling-station\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":6729,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[432,427,157],"class_list":["post-6727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-where-is-my-polling-station","tag-mbo","tag-stembureaus","tag-verkiezingen"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6727"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11622,"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6727\/revisions\/11622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}