# 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:** 13\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-kind-of-place-do-you-vote-in/640108/61 "2012-11-07T01:43:13Z")
A community building that used to be a library. The weird thing about it is that there are no voting booths, just a bunch of long tables that you sit at and fill out your ballot. You can easily see how the other people at your table are voting. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-kind-of-place-do-you-vote-in/640108/62 "2012-11-07T01:51:42Z")
> [@dalej42](#): > > 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. I wonder if we voted at the same place. I thought it was kind of odd, as I’m used to the public building church/school/civic center/park district kind of polling place, yet this year I’m voting in the community room of a private (senior living) apartment building. Weird. Even weirder, about half a dozen of the residents are or were my patients, and a couple of them got very confused that I wasn’t there to see them. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Student\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-kind-of-place-do-you-vote-in/640108/63 "2012-11-07T01:58:16Z")
This year, a large church with a parking lot befitting a shopping mall. Prior years: precinct voting was in the apartment clubhouse across the block, early voting was done in the county courthouse. When I lived in Indianapolis, I voted in an elementary school, where I got to admire macaroni art and finger paintings while waiting. ---
**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 7, 2012, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-kind-of-place-do-you-vote-in/640108/64 "2012-11-07T01:59:05Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > At the public school a couple blocks away. OK, so guess who didn’t look at their sample ballot this year? We voted at the local Community Center. Luckily, my wife let me know before I showed up at the wrong place. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-kind-of-place-do-you-vote-in/640108/65 "2012-11-07T02:20:17Z")
Church basement (Congregationalist.) One block away; an easy walk. And I was the only one there, too! ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-kind-of-place-do-you-vote-in/640108/66 "2012-11-07T03:16:26Z")
Elementary School. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-kind-of-place-do-you-vote-in/640108/67 "2012-11-07T03:35:44Z")
My dining-room table. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-kind-of-place-do-you-vote-in/640108/68 "2012-11-07T03:36:10Z")
Until today I voted at a church hall. But now the polling place is moved to a fairgrounds building. ---
**Author:** ![StuffLikeThatThere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc8723/32.png) [@StuffLikeThatThere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StuffLikeThatThere)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-kind-of-place-do-you-vote-in/640108/69 "2012-11-07T04:07:43Z")
Local volunteer fire station. Requisite elderly poll workers. Every year, they remember who I’m married to but can’t come up with my name. I’m that girl who married a local boy. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-kind-of-place-do-you-vote-in/640108/70 "2012-11-07T13:15:22Z")
Our local elementary school. Now that it’s been 10 years since our last child attended it, we feel really old when we go there to vote. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f07891/32.png) [@Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Plastic_Ninja)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-kind-of-place-do-you-vote-in/640108/71 "2012-11-07T14:24:14Z")
At my university. There’s a big building called an academic center that has a few department offices on the top two floors, a computer lab, meeting rooms, a helpdesk, and the writing center on the second floor, and lots of lounge area, a computer store, and a coffee bar (and voting machines) on the ground floor. And more offices and an auditorium in the basement. It’s had a lot of uses over the years and used to be a library, but now it’s just somewhere to go study. Well. And vote. 😛 Directly across the street there’s a co-op you can vote in too. Lines around both were around the building. College students love voting, especially when it’s convenient. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-kind-of-place-do-you-vote-in/640108/72 "2012-11-07T15:26:22Z")
Church around corner from my house. In a kiddie classroom so the geezer poll workers were scrambling to find human sized chairs (don’t get in a twist - I’m a geezer too:)). Two ballot sheets with one double sided (had some muni ballot measures as well). Fill in the blocks with black pen - 5 minutes and out. Other district had 50+ in line out in the hall. ---
**Author:** ![Mann\_Slaughter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@Mann\_Slaughter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mann_Slaughter)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-kind-of-place-do-you-vote-in/640108/73 "2012-11-07T15:34:14Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > My polling place is a middle school gymnasium. I wondered if perhaps you lived in Rocky River, OH (until I viewed your profile) because that’s exactly what my polling place was! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-kind-of-place-do-you-vote-in/640108.md?page=3)