So what kind of place do you vote in?

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.

Not the comfy chair!

For big elections, the high school right across the street. For small ones, the little Lutheran church six blocks away.

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.

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.

Elementary School. My eight-year-old’s school, which she find vastly amusing.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

A nursing home activities room. That makes it convenient for the poll workers, who don’t even have to leave their own building. :slight_smile:

There must be a federal law that all poll workers must be at least 80 years old.

We could do worse. And often have.

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.

Local Lutheran Church.

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

Lakewood City Hall. The room was listed as an “auditorium”, but it looked like a courtroom.

Middle school gymnasium in 2012 and in 2010.

My previous precinct voted at a Baptist church lobby area in 2008.

God bless you!

A Jewish temple/synagogue.

ETA: Hey Bob Ducca, did you vote in the same place?