# Finding your polling place **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 28, 2004, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-your-polling-place/271652 "2004-10-28T12:41:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-your-polling-place/271652/1 "2004-10-28T12:41:41Z")
[http://www.mypollingplace.com/](http://www.mypollingplace.com/) in case anyone wants to check or double-check. I had this site bookmarked (thanks to a Doper-I forget who-thanks!) but hadn’t looked at it until this morning. I moved last summer, but only 2 blocks away, so I assumed that I’d be voting at the same place I voted before the move. I’m glad I checked, because that’s not where I’m supposed to vote. Whew! I could have been waiting in a long, long line, only to get in and find out I needed to go elsewhere. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stranger\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@The\_Stranger\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stranger_1)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-your-polling-place/271652/2 "2004-10-28T13:21:52Z")
Thank You. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-your-polling-place/271652/3 "2004-10-28T15:02:41Z")
> [@The\_Stranger](#): > > Thank You. You’re welcome. I’m glad it helped someone. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stranger\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@The\_Stranger\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stranger_1)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-your-polling-place/271652/4 "2004-10-28T16:19:23Z")
Saved me a google search! I just moved into a new place and had to re-register and find my polling place. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-your-polling-place/271652/5 "2004-10-28T16:55:09Z")
Thank you! I don’t know where in the mess I call home my voter guide is, so you really helped me and Mr Neville. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-your-polling-place/271652/6 "2004-10-28T17:15:43Z")
Thanks for posting that - sometime between when I registered in this state and the last election (off-year), which couldn’t have been more than a year, they split my precinct, ir seems. Didn’t send me anything or nothing. So I stood in a (fairly short) line, got to the front, and then had to be told I was in the wrong place. Sure, it was only a block to walk, but if it had been farther or it had been a presidential election year with a high turnout like this one I’d have been righteously pissed. ---
**Author:** ![Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tastes_of_chocolate/32/3232_2.png) [@Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tastes_of_Chocolate)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-your-polling-place/271652/7 "2004-10-28T17:36:40Z")
[MyBallot.net](http://www.e-democracy.org/myballot/) shows polling places also. In addition, it will show you who will be on your ballot. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-your-polling-place/271652/8 "2004-10-28T17:39:40Z")
[MyBallot.net](http://MyBallot.net) says it’s good only for Minnesota. ---
**Author:** ![Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tastes_of_chocolate/32/3232_2.png) [@Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tastes_of_Chocolate)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-your-polling-place/271652/9 "2004-10-28T19:03:54Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > [MyBallot.net](http://MyBallot.net) says it’s good only for Minnesota. Doh!! Sorry about that. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-your-polling-place/271652/10 "2004-10-28T20:54:32Z")
Before the primaries, they’d sent me a new registration card, which I promptly ignored (I couldn’t find scissors to cut out the card). That Tuesday, at 7:30, I ran into the place where I’d been voting for years - and my precinct wasn’t listed… they’d moved my polling place across the street (it wasn’t too busy or too hard to find parking), so I made it to the polls at 7:45. Still in time to vote, but if you’re not voting absentee, _CHECK YOUR POLLING PLACE!_ ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2004, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-your-polling-place/271652/11 "2004-10-29T02:08:17Z")
Mine polling place is not listed on the site. ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2004, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-your-polling-place/271652/12 "2004-10-29T02:54:00Z")
The information it gave me is wrong. (I know this for certain, as I am working at the polls this year.) Oops. If the information seems suspect, please double check with your local Board of Elections. Call tomorrow, you’re more likely to get through and get a good answer than if you wait until Monday or worse, Tuesday. ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2004, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-your-polling-place/271652/13 "2004-10-29T04:00:49Z")
Huh. It was right! Except that you can’t “ask for a new ballot” since there is no ballot per se, but selections you make with little levers in a Shoup machine. If you pull back the main lever they pop back into place, all your votes are recorded, and we, the pollworkers, have no idea what you did in there. Big black X’s appear next to the name you chose so just check to see if the X’s are next to the right name, ya lazy bum. If you come out and ask for a paper affadavit ballot too, tough noogies–that’d be voting twice.