# So what kind of place do you vote in? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 6, 2012, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-kind-of-place-do-you-vote-in/640108 "2012-11-06T17:22:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-kind-of-place-do-you-vote-in/640108/21 "2012-11-06T18:09:19Z")
I’m in an Atlanta suburb, and we have a new polling place this year. I will miss our old polling place, the Kubota Tractor Factory. It was kinda neat voting at a warehouse/factory. This year we vote at the local elementary school. Nice thing is that it is within walking distance for me. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-kind-of-place-do-you-vote-in/640108/22 "2012-11-06T18:11:24Z")
I used to vote in something called the Communication Building. I never could figure out the purpose of that building. It sits at the edge of one of the city parks. There is a radio tower outside. The building itself is quite small, and if there is communication equipment of some ilk ensconced therein, I know not where they store it. Now my polling place is the lobby area of the county children & family services building. I have no idea why they changed it. It’s about a block south of the old place and there’s less parking. ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-kind-of-place-do-you-vote-in/640108/23 "2012-11-06T18:14:22Z")
In a community center that used to be the Colored High School in my town. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-kind-of-place-do-you-vote-in/640108/24 "2012-11-06T18:17:26Z")
At the public school a couple blocks away. A couple times in the past, we’ve voted in someone’s garage. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-kind-of-place-do-you-vote-in/640108/25 "2012-11-06T18:23:24Z")
My regular polling place is a Seniors’ Rec Center, but my early voting place (where I normally vote) is a nearby library. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-kind-of-place-do-you-vote-in/640108/26 "2012-11-06T18:27:07Z")
Election-day voting happens in an elementary school gym. Early voting can be done in the student union at the nearby state university. ---
**Author:** ![Tess\_Trueheart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@Tess\_Trueheart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tess_Trueheart)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-kind-of-place-do-you-vote-in/640108/27 "2012-11-06T18:40:01Z")
A Presbyterian church. I’m just barely off campus, but the on-campus students got to vote in the Alumni Center right in the middle of the Oklahoma State campus. When I lived on campus at another college, that school (UNT) didn’t get their own polling place, so I had to go out to some church then, too (and didn’t have a car back then). This is Oklahoma; it’s all at churches here. ---
**Author:** ![MegaBee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@MegaBee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MegaBee)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-kind-of-place-do-you-vote-in/640108/28 "2012-11-06T18:56:12Z")
Local fire station. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-kind-of-place-do-you-vote-in/640108/29 "2012-11-06T18:57:14Z")
A Community Center, that I’ve never been to except to vote. The actual voting was done in a gym. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-kind-of-place-do-you-vote-in/640108/30 "2012-11-06T19:00:12Z")
For many years in a nearby middle school gym; a long walk or a short drive. For the last few years in the well-scrubbed basement of the UCC church right across the street from our house. Very convenient. ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-kind-of-place-do-you-vote-in/640108/31 "2012-11-06T19:01:32Z")
Neighbor’s garage one block from my house. 6 stations, no line as of 8:45 this morning. Leftover Halloween candy to go along with your “I voted” sticker. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-kind-of-place-do-you-vote-in/640108/32 "2012-11-06T19:03:52Z")
Elementary school gym. In my last apartment I voted in one, too. So did my parents back in my home town. I have voted in a temporary trailer, and in a private home (the floors were covered with heavy plastic tarp to preserve the carpets) ---
**Author:** ![Feyrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/fbc32d/32.png) [@Feyrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feyrat)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-kind-of-place-do-you-vote-in/640108/33 "2012-11-06T19:05:25Z")
Elementary school combo gymnasium/cafeteria. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-kind-of-place-do-you-vote-in/640108/34 "2012-11-06T19:09:41Z")
Church a few blocks away ---
**Author:** ![sitchensis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sitchensis/32/4892_2.png) [@sitchensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sitchensis)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-kind-of-place-do-you-vote-in/640108/35 "2012-11-06T19:21:25Z")
The mall. I could theoretically buy a bed, a fifth of whiskey, and a crisp meat burrito within200 ft. of the polls. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-kind-of-place-do-you-vote-in/640108/36 "2012-11-06T19:28:51Z")
My voting precinct holds elections at the subdivision clubhouse right across the street from Casa Clothahump. 😃 Several years back, the county used to rent my Taekwondo school as a polling place. ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-kind-of-place-do-you-vote-in/640108/37 "2012-11-06T19:30:03Z")
Early voting was at the library, but election day voting is at a community center. ---
**Author:** ![mtomm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@mtomm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mtomm)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-kind-of-place-do-you-vote-in/640108/38 "2012-11-06T19:37:33Z")
A church. A Mormon church. Where I will cast caution to the wind, take my chances of going to hell and vote for the President. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-kind-of-place-do-you-vote-in/640108/39 "2012-11-06T19:37:45Z")
Local elementary school. ---
**Author:** ![Tracyfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f14d63/32.png) [@Tracyfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracyfish)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-kind-of-place-do-you-vote-in/640108/40 "2012-11-06T20:03:05Z")
The gym of the mosque/school by my house. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-kind-of-place-do-you-vote-in/640108.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-kind-of-place-do-you-vote-in/640108.md?page=3)