# So...where's YOUR polling place tomorrow? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 1, 2004, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wheres-your-polling-place-tomorrow/272409 "2004-11-01T21:30:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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 1, 2004, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wheres-your-polling-place-tomorrow/272409/1 "2004-11-01T21:30:05Z")
For the first time in my life I won’t be voting at an elementary school. Tomorrow I take the short walk to the United Methodist Church and vote there. They’ll even have sandwiches and drinks for people. And I got to thinking about where votes are made. I recall my dad telling me when I was small (in Torrance, CA near LA) that he had to walk down the street to a neighbors place to vote because it was in someone’s house that year. So how 'bout it, folks? Where are YOU casting that ballot tomorrow? ---
**Author:** ![MsPrufrock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb9ed0/32.png) [@MsPrufrock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsPrufrock)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2004, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wheres-your-polling-place-tomorrow/272409/2 "2004-11-01T21:32:22Z")
I’ll be voting at the middle school up the street. I don’t really have any comparison years though. I voted absentee last year and that was my first election. I’m kind of excited about actually going to vote in person. Dorky, yes, but excited nonetheless. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2004, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wheres-your-polling-place-tomorrow/272409/3 "2004-11-01T21:33:24Z")
Mine is the elementary school that’s practically in our backyard. I can walk there in 5 minutes, and usually do so rather than drive. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2004, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wheres-your-polling-place-tomorrow/272409/4 "2004-11-01T21:34:47Z")
I’m holding down the fort on elementary schools, **JC** – the one that backs up on my back yard. Our specific polling place is in the right half of the auditorium – there’s another precinct in the left half of the auditorium. U.S. Senator Arlen Spector also votes at this school (I’ve seen the local news crews waiting for him to emerge), but I don’t think we’re in the exact same precinct, since he lives on the other side of Midvale Avenue. ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2004, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wheres-your-polling-place-tomorrow/272409/5 "2004-11-01T21:35:13Z")
Mine’s in the atrium between a high-rise condo building, a business highschool, and a medical center. It’s been there for the last couple years since it moved from the senior housing center across the street. Lucky me, it’s a block from home and on my way to work tomorrow (my three block daily commute). ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2004, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wheres-your-polling-place-tomorrow/272409/6 "2004-11-01T21:35:25Z")
As far as back as I can remember, I’ve been voting at churchs. Tomorrow I’ll be voting at the Catholic Church where I used to be an altar boy, St. Catherine of Sienna. It’s just in a public room area, but maybe I’ll stop in to the church proper and say a prayer for the country on the way out. Not that I believe in that kind of stuff anymore, but I think we might need it. I tried to vote twice today but the early polling places are pretty backed up, one hour wait, minimum. ---
**Author:** ![PigBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/97f17d/32.png) [@PigBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PigBoy)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2004, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wheres-your-polling-place-tomorrow/272409/7 "2004-11-01T21:42:25Z")
Well, I won’t be voting there (I voted early at the county board of elections office), but for me it’s a church down the road just a short distance. I forget what kind of church it is. ---
**Author:** ![Ace309](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ace309/32/1050_2.png) [@Ace309](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ace309)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2004, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wheres-your-polling-place-tomorrow/272409/8 "2004-11-01T21:46:25Z")
At my law school. Talk about convenient! (Cardozo School of Law, NYC) ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2004, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wheres-your-polling-place-tomorrow/272409/9 "2004-11-01T21:52:57Z")
There’s a new sports facility right next to my husband’s job. Near as I can tell, they only use it on the weekends in summer. We’ll be voting there tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2004, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wheres-your-polling-place-tomorrow/272409/10 "2004-11-01T22:10:44Z")
I’ll be voting at the high school just a few blocks from my condo. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2004, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wheres-your-polling-place-tomorrow/272409/11 "2004-11-01T22:31:40Z")
I vote in the speech room of the elementary school that is right across the street from my house. Cross the street, go 100 yards to the left, and I’m there. Even better, I have a call at 8 am which I do from home, so I can vote when I’m done and miss the morning rush. ---
**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2004, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wheres-your-polling-place-tomorrow/272409/12 "2004-11-01T22:33:48Z")
I think it’s at the elementary school across the street. That’s where it was last time around. (The reason I’m not sure is that Connecticut is remarkably backwards with this stuff. They do not send out sample ballots, and they do not have a website to look up your polling place. I think the only way to find out your polling place is to get the newspaper on the right day – and I don’t. So if I don’t have the right place, tomorrow should be interesting.) ---
**Author:** ![AllShookDown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d9b06d/32.png) [@AllShookDown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AllShookDown)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2004, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wheres-your-polling-place-tomorrow/272409/13 "2004-11-01T22:35:00Z")
I’ll be voting at the Caledonia Township (pop. 1,711) Town Hall. A plain, small, newish building with an office, a meeting room and bathrooms. The township auctioned off a house to raise the money for it. We used to vote at the elementary school (we still have grade 1-4 elementary schools out in the towships here). I’m looking forward to seeing how many people are there when I go. I don’t think I’ve ever seen more than three voters there at a time. ---
**Author:** ![Big\_Norse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/big_norse/32/9954_2.png) [@Big\_Norse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Big_Norse)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2004, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wheres-your-polling-place-tomorrow/272409/14 "2004-11-01T22:39:06Z")
The Lutheran Church right next door to my apartment. Very convenient, but sadly that means I don’t have an excuse to leave work early to vote. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2004, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wheres-your-polling-place-tomorrow/272409/15 "2004-11-01T22:50:43Z")
> [@gobear](#): > > I’ll be voting at the high school just a few blocks from my condo. Which one? Family probably knows _someone_ who went there:) I already voted all absentee-like, but depending on how much time I have and if I can justify it to myself (I’d be missing two classes and one of them is a really important one because it’s in my major), I might be at the local polling place helping folks vote tomorrow, so I expect I’ll find out where that is tonight at the meeting. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2004, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wheres-your-polling-place-tomorrow/272409/16 "2004-11-01T22:53:29Z")
I’m going to the church up the street, on my way into work. I’m planning on getting there as early as possible, so I’ll try to leave my apartment at 7:00 instead of 7:30 and hope it’s not too crowded then. In Knoxville, I voted in an elementary school, in Atlanta, I was in a church…Mississippi…I don’t remember, and Nashville I don’t remember. Chattanooga, it was an elementary school. ---
**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 1, 2004, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wheres-your-polling-place-tomorrow/272409/17 "2004-11-01T22:58:58Z")
I live in Torrance, CA now, and I’m voting in my neighbor’s garage. I live right next to an elementary school, but that’s not being used as a polling place. Previously… Redondo Beach, CA… elementary school cafeteria, community center room, and neighbor’s garage. College… absentee Woodland Hills… church. ---
**Author:** ![misstee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@misstee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misstee)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2004, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wheres-your-polling-place-tomorrow/272409/18 "2004-11-01T23:12:37Z")
I am still not sure! I looked on our county auditors website to find our polling place, but the location list has been disabled. Tomorrow I will go into the court house and find out where we need to go. ---
**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 1, 2004, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wheres-your-polling-place-tomorrow/272409/19 "2004-11-01T23:14:22Z")
I mentioned this in another thread somewhere, but I want to repeat it again because I love the place… A national guard armory with a big ol’ tank in the main room where the booths are located. Sometimes there might some other equipment to look at too that’s worth a look. ---
**Author:** ![picker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/picker/32/13969_2.png) [@picker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picker)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2004, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wheres-your-polling-place-tomorrow/272409/20 "2004-11-01T23:16:11Z")
In the Public Library just 150 yards from my house. Nice and convenient. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wheres-your-polling-place-tomorrow/272409.md?page=2)