I’m casting my all important Columbus, Ohio ballot at a nearby neighborhood church, too. dalej42, maybe I’ll see you on line.
School. Presumably a Catholic school, since it’s called St Bernard’s Academy. I’ve walked past it a couple times, but I actually don’t know whether it’s an elementary school, a middle school, or a high school.
Mrs. Mercotan and I are heading to the town hall to vote tomorrow morning. Qadgop will have to wait 'till he comes back from work.
George Marshall on Leesburg Pike.
Our polling place is our daughter’s middle school a block and a half away. For the smaller elections, they consolidate precincts and we end up voting at the elementary school six blocks away instead. This time around, though, Mr. Legend and I took my mom to an early voting place (in an empty storefront in a strip mall near her house) and voted last week.
All Albuquerque public schools, elementary, middle, and high, are closed tomorrow for the election, which I think is only sensible, seeing that turnout is probably going to be at an all-time high. I’ve always wondered a little about that - when I go to work in the school among all those people I know, I’m required to sign in and show I.D. if requested before I can set foot out of the school office. On election day, however, hordes of unidentified adults are milling about going in and out of the library or the cafeteria or wherever, mixing with the schoolkids and being given every opportunity to kidnap or molest or do whatever it is to a child that volunteers are being prevented from doing by the sign-in requirement.
Then again, there are usually only about forty or fifty people total per polling place when it comes to the bond elections.
At the volunteer fire department. The largest number of people that have ever voted there is, I think, 165.
There’s never a wait, but voting is a social event. Stop and talk to neighbors, get advice about which candidate to vote for and all that stuff. It’s way cool.
There’s a private school (Seventh Day Adventist) just a couple blocks from my house, so this is where I usually go to vote. In the past I have also voted at the fire station and at the City Hall building.
Hopewell Baptist Church
I, like many, bitch, moan, and complain about the state of civic affairs in this country; however, I always stand up a little straighter and thank the powers that be whenever I go into a voting booth.
Parkes Hall, on Chicago Avenue. I was awake all night, so I was done voting by 6:10. I was the fourth voter in the precinct.
I stopped by the elementary school on the way to work this morning to cast my vote. It’s close, but not quite as convenient as this lady has it.
In our elementary school gym. I think I’ve always voted in an elementary school. For sure in the last five presidentials before this. Sadly, I can’t remember where I voted the first time. I know it was in my hometown, but don’t remember much else except for whom I voted. It was 1980, Reagan v Carter. I’m still trying to forget the outcome of that one.
I early voted last week, but my preceint is a fire station a half mile from my house. I drove by at 7AM just to see. People were lined up two deep all the way around the building with a line of cars backed up a quarter mile waiting to park. Yay for early voting!
NPR had a small story this a.m. about a woman who has voted in every election since women were first permitted the right to vote (she voted for Harding in 1920).
She’s 103 and is going to the polls today as well.
And more power to her.
Voted in the church with no problems today. Waited maybe 5 minutes (probably less) and people were complaining about the wait.
I voted at a local baptist church less than a mile from my house. And the Episcopal church next to the baptist church is also a polling place, but for a different precinct or whatever. I waited a minute to sign in and a minute or so to actually fill out my ballot. And that was just because I happened to arrive just after a busload of nuns. I’m not kidding.
I can’t imagine waiting in a long line like that to vote. But I spose I still would.
Got to the polls at 8:00, left at 9:30. HUGE line, no challenges.
This year it was in one of the high schools. I had a bit of a chore finding it, and just plain got lucky when it came to parking. I preferred the Salvation Army Depot it was at last time.
Happily, my current polling place is the retirement home right across the street from my apartment building. Previously, I’ve voted in an elementary school, a church, and a college gym.
Happened again this morning.
That’s pretty cool.
The G***erson’s garage down the street. It is pristine. Last year it shamed me into cleaning up my garage. I’m glad we’re not having touchscreen voting - we had it in the primary last year and it was a nightmare. Plus, it wasn’t private. It seemed like anyone could see the screen you were voting - there weren’t any booths.
The bake sale is a great idea. I’d buy something!