# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-kind-of-place-do-you-vote-in/640108/41 "2012-11-06T20:05:01Z")
Last two times it’s been a library – two different ones, both outside my precinct because I took advantage of early voting. The time before that it was at an Electricians Union hall and I could walk just a couple of blocks to it. ---
**Author:** ![Belowjob2.0](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Belowjob2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Belowjob2.0)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-kind-of-place-do-you-vote-in/640108/42 "2012-11-06T20:05:14Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > My comfy chair in my house. I voted 2 weeks ago. Not the comfy chair! For big elections, the high school right across the street. For small ones, the little Lutheran church six blocks away. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-kind-of-place-do-you-vote-in/640108/43 "2012-11-06T20:59:07Z")
From my living room. Vote by mail in Oregon. In Alaska, we had to drive down a potholed dirt road to the Sons of Norway hall to vote. The first time, it took us a half hour to find it, as they don’t put out any signs telling you where it is. Alaska: suppressing the vote since Big Oil showed up. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-kind-of-place-do-you-vote-in/640108/44 "2012-11-06T21:01:11Z")
For the last 10 years I voted at the Catholic church down the street, but I was recently re-districted and this time I voted at my kids’ elementary school. Or I would have, except I voted early, which was at the local community center. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-kind-of-place-do-you-vote-in/640108/45 "2012-11-06T21:02:12Z")
Elementary School. My eight-year-old’s school, which she find vastly amusing. ---
**Author:** ![Dorjan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorjan/32/12440_2.png) [@Dorjan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dorjan)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-kind-of-place-do-you-vote-in/640108/46 "2012-11-06T21:05:30Z")
My new place is a local Methodist Church. The old one was a historical mansion located in a park, across the street from the Methodist church. No idea why they changed it. ---
**Author:** ![Rhodes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhodes/32/273_2.png) [@Rhodes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhodes)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-kind-of-place-do-you-vote-in/640108/47 "2012-11-06T21:22:50Z")
I voted at the elementary school while dropping off my 2nd grader. She thought it was weird that I waited so long to vote. Apparently her class had an election a week ago. She voted for Abraham Lincoln. I told her that Lincoln has been dead for over a hundred years and thus would be an ineffective president. She thinks I’m kidding. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-kind-of-place-do-you-vote-in/640108/48 "2012-11-06T21:33:07Z")
At the Catholic elementary school a few blocks from my house (I think it’s in some sort of multi-purpose room). When I first moved to this neighborhood, my polling place was at somebody’s house (specifically, in their two-car attached garage). ---
**Author:** ![BetsQ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/fbc32d/32.png) [@BetsQ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BetsQ)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-kind-of-place-do-you-vote-in/640108/49 "2012-11-06T21:40:00Z")
Local elementary school. I really wish we had polling stations somewhere else. We really don’t need another day off school. We missed two days last week for Sandy, 11/5 for a teacher workday, today for polling, and then two half days next week for teacher conferences. Sigh. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-kind-of-place-do-you-vote-in/640108/50 "2012-11-06T21:42:10Z")
One of the bigger churches in the center of town. Before they consolidated all the polling places in the city, it was the lobby of the municipal building. ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-kind-of-place-do-you-vote-in/640108/51 "2012-11-06T22:31:25Z")
California Army National Guard Armory…since 1997. They usually have a tank or an APC inside the armory for voters to check out over the years, but it’s the second straight year that there has not been any vehicle at all. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-kind-of-place-do-you-vote-in/640108/52 "2012-11-06T22:36:00Z")
A nursing home activities room. That makes it convenient for the poll workers, who don’t even have to leave their own building. 🙂 There must be a federal law that all poll workers must be at least 80 years old. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-kind-of-place-do-you-vote-in/640108/53 "2012-11-06T22:37:14Z")
> [@Rhodes](#): > > II told her that Lincoln has been dead for over a hundred years and thus would be an ineffective president. She thinks I’m kidding. We could do worse. And often have. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-kind-of-place-do-you-vote-in/640108/54 "2012-11-06T23:09:29Z")
Senior citizen living home, also with the requisite elderly poll workers. Ten minutes in and out, most of it spent voting on endless judicial races. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-kind-of-place-do-you-vote-in/640108/55 "2012-11-06T23:13:32Z")
Local Lutheran Church. ---
**Author:** ![TimToyGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a5b964/32.png) [@TimToyGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TimToyGeek)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-kind-of-place-do-you-vote-in/640108/56 "2012-11-06T23:13:41Z")
I’ve voted at the ballroom of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, the Cinematographer’s Guild meeting room, and this time I voted at Temple Beth El. Not bad either time, though I think the Roosevelt was nice because there was a bar just outside the polling place. Tim ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-kind-of-place-do-you-vote-in/640108/57 "2012-11-06T23:22:06Z")
Lakewood City Hall. The room was listed as an “auditorium”, but it looked like a courtroom. ---
**Author:** ![Enlightening\_Meditation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecc23a/32.png) [@Enlightening\_Meditation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enlightening_Meditation)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-kind-of-place-do-you-vote-in/640108/58 "2012-11-06T23:28:42Z")
Middle school gymnasium in 2012 and in 2010. My previous precinct voted at a Baptist church lobby area in 2008. ---
**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 7, 2012, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-kind-of-place-do-you-vote-in/640108/59 "2012-11-07T01:22:56Z")
> [@mtomm](#): > > 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. God bless you! ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-kind-of-place-do-you-vote-in/640108/60 "2012-11-07T01:32:33Z")
A Jewish temple/synagogue. ETA: Hey Bob Ducca, did you vote in the same place? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-kind-of-place-do-you-vote-in/640108.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-kind-of-place-do-you-vote-in/640108.md?page=4)