Yes. For the upcoming federal election on 24 November I’ll vote at the local school as usual. It’s about 200m up the road from my place.
I’ve never voted at a regular polling place for a federal election; as I’m always working on them, I always vote at the advance poll (specific dates for voting before election day, at a smaller number of polling places) or by special ballot (voting any time during the election). The advance polling places are always within a reasonable walking distance, but special ballots are cast at the returning office for the electoral district (or by mail). Since I live in a city, the returning office is not necessarily within walking distance but is easily accessible by transit. I’ve usually voted when I’m there for some other reason, such as a meeting with the returning officer.
At the last provincial election, the polling place was at a local community centre about ten minutes away on foot (advance poll, I think); at the last municipal election, I voted at an elementary school about five minutes away; and at the provincial election before that, the polling place was in a high school across the street from my apartment.
We’re tied. I vote in the lobby of my apartment building.
All my previous polling places were within easy walking distance of wherever I was living at the time. I’ve voted in the local community-group offices (where I was once greeted at an off-year primary election with a playful gasp: “A voter!”), a branch library, and once in the lobby of the dental school. One year the local used bookstore hosted a polling place; I envied that district’s voters–sofas to sit on and lots to read while waiting.
Incidentally, in the last few months I’ve worked on two elections outside my electoral district – the federal by-election in Outremont and the Ontario provincial election in the campaign in Ottawa Centre. In both cases on election day I was assigned to a zone house that covered about 1/8 of the riding or so. In the case of Outremont, my zone house contained two polling places, covering an area about 1.5 km x 400 m or so.
In Ottawa Centre, in an area about 1 x 1 km, there were eight or more polling places, but in that election Elections Ontario had followed a policy of having huge numbers of polling places, including polling places in large apartment buildings exclusively for that building.
In federal elections they’ll often set up polling places in the lobbies or rec rooms of seniors’ residences, to make it easier for seniors with limited mobility to vote. (They’ll also do itinerant polling places that travel to seniors’ residences, hospitals, etc., and go room to room.) Church basements, schools, community centres, and the like are also favourites, but in more isolated regions they often make do with what they have – I’ve heard of polling places being set up in private homes when nothing else was available.
Washington does postal voting too? I thought Oregon was the only state that did.
I used to vote in a Unitarian church about 3 blocks away. Voter registration has been down in the area for the past few years so we’re all sent absentee ballots. The next closest (and open) polling place is perhaps 5 or 6 blocks away, but for whatever reason we haven’t been transferred there.
I live in Virginia, and my polling place is a block away; the polling place for the precinct next to me is two blocks away. But I’m in Arlington…some of the NOVA exurbs have grown fast and are more spread out, so it’s not surprising there’s more space between some polling places.
I vote at the high school in the next block. My election day routine is: 1) get up and change into sweats, 2) go vote, 3) come home and resume morning pre-work routine.
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I will walk this election. My polling place was just moved to the middle school 2 blocks away. My previos polling place was technically within walking distance, but required crossing several busy streets with poor lighting.
Our local polling spot is the elementary school right across the street.
Gosh! I’d like to travel someday.
We don’t have ‘polling places’ here. I just have to walk to my kitchen table for the ballot.
Mine’s on the same block. Plus it opens about 10 minutes before I leave for work and is in the direction I walk, so I would have to go to some efforts to avoid voting. 
Since I’ve been here, I’ve voted in the Fish, Wildlife, and Parks headquarters (where you go to get hunting licenses and such), the university arena, and the university stadium. All are in walking distance, though the stadium is far enough I’d have preferred to bike (had I known it was going to be there before walking to the arena and seeing the signs).
But that’s only in even years, when there are federal offices on the ballot (representative, if nothing else). When it’s just local like this year, they mail out ballots. I don’t know how Montana does presidential primaries, since ours don’t matter anyway.
Yeah. It’s out in my garage.
It’s about a 30 second drive from the station to my house, but a 10 minute walk.
It might be as long as a minute drive if I had to go from my house to the station, due to all the medians and one-way streets. (But I walk, so I don’t know.)
I have no idea.
The one time I didn’t vote by absentee ballot was in a school board election, so I don’t know if that’s the normal polling place. It was one block from my house, so yes, I walked. Even if it were at some of the other polling places I know I’d still probably have walked - it probably would’ve been within three miles or so.
Most of the time I’m a couple thousand miles from wherever the polling place may be, which is a distance not even I will walk.
It’s at my old elementary school–three blocks away, a two-minute walk. Nice.
Incidentally, there was a story during the last election of a family of Nigerian immigrants living in the Northwest Territories who spent $3,000 of their own money to fly to Edmonton to be sworn in as citizens in order to be able to vote.
I use this story when berating those who think it a waste of their time to walk for ten minutes and stand in line for five more to determine who runs the country.
yes - about 1/3 mile away.