twinsmomfla99
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Post by twinsmomfla99 on Aug 2, 2020 2:21:29 GMT
Everywhere I have lived as an adult, I have voted at a school, rev center, library, etc.
However, my parents used to vote in a neighbor’s garage! I never thought much about it. I never voted there because I was in college for my first election and voted absentee until I was out in the real world in another state.
What’s weird is that it was such a small group voting there (less than 100 registered voters, I think), and during the primaries the homeowner could pretty much guess how everyone voted since the voter turnout was in the single digits for each party LOL.
Do you know of any non-traditional polling locations in your area?
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Post by 950nancy on Aug 2, 2020 2:24:46 GMT
I can't remember the last time I voted in a building. We've been using mail in for quite some time. Prior to that it was an elementary school and a high school.
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Post by katlady on Aug 2, 2020 2:26:31 GMT
There is always a voting place in my community that is in someone's garage. For a few years, it was the same house, but it changed lately (maybe they moved).
Just wanted to add - I live in a gated community. But on election day, the gates were open for people who lived outside the community. So, apparently the polling place was for an area wider than my immediate community.
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Post by freecharlie on Aug 2, 2020 2:28:20 GMT
Early voting near me is a sheriff's training center Currently I day of vote at a church
My elementary school was a polling place.
My state did something great a ways back, you can vote at any polling place in your county. You choose the one most convenient for you.
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mvavw
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Post by mvavw on Aug 2, 2020 2:29:01 GMT
I vote at village hall for general elections and the school for school board elections.
Primary and general elections also have schools, ambulance corps and firehouses, churches and synagogues used as polling places. I'm not sure what others we have.
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breetheflea
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Post by breetheflea on Aug 2, 2020 2:30:23 GMT
I've always voted by mail... my first election was absentee because I was in college, or they had just passed vote by mail I can't remember, but I mailed my ballot. We moved where we live now in 2004 and they had just passed vote-by-mail here (although I was assigned a polling place, I never had to use it) I think it might have been a school.
My parents voted in some weird government building not too far from our house when I was growing up. I'm not sure what it was then, but now it's a juvenile justice center. I went with my mom once but only remember the privacy curtains in the booths. I don't think they use garages in Oregon for voting... but maybe I'm wrong.
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Post by bothmykidsrbrats on Aug 2, 2020 2:35:38 GMT
My regular voting location is my kids former elementary school. We usually vote early at one of our grocery stores. I can't think of any unusual voting locations, but I wouldn't be surprised if there weren't some in our smaller rural towns.
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Mystie
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Post by Mystie on Aug 2, 2020 2:43:22 GMT
On the old animated sitcom "King of the Hill," the Hills' garage is a polling place. That's a great episode, too, pretty sure it's from the 2000 election. So funny! And I'm betraying my nerdy interest in old-time radio here, but the old radio comedy "Fibber McGee and Molly" had the McGees' home being used as a polling place in the episode from Election Day 1940.
I've never voted anywhere out of the ordinary. My current polling place is an old middle school that is now an early childhood education center in Newport News, VA. I've also voted at the local library in Idaho Falls, ID, and the Jewish community center in Squirrel Hill in Pittsburgh, and at a megachurch in Westerville, OH.
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grammanisi
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Post by grammanisi on Aug 2, 2020 2:46:49 GMT
We vote at tell health department. Before that a church.
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Post by cindyupnorth on Aug 2, 2020 2:48:57 GMT
Town Hall.
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grammanisi
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Post by grammanisi on Aug 2, 2020 2:51:58 GMT
We vote at the health department. Before that a church.
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Post by myshelly on Aug 2, 2020 2:56:04 GMT
My assigned polling place is a church.
Early voting is at the library.
I am not eligible to vote by mail.
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lionpride92
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Post by lionpride92 on Aug 2, 2020 2:57:09 GMT
Either a school or a local church hall. My parents vote at the town hall.
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Post by bc2ca on Aug 2, 2020 3:02:22 GMT
However, my parents used to vote in a neighbor’s garage! I never thought much about it. I never voted there because I was in college for my first election and voted absentee until I was out in the real world in another state. Our polling station is a neighbor's garage. DH and I'd always sit down together Sunday afternoon to go over the ballot and now the kids join us. I drop everything off at the library on Monday. I'm pretty sure the library becomes a polling station on election day. When we lived in WA, the elementary school was the neighborhood polling station. The PTA always had a very successful bake sale that day.
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Post by Linda on Aug 2, 2020 3:12:36 GMT
When I lived in New England we voted at the schools - Election Day was always a student holiday.
Arizona - I voted at the public library
Florida - when I first moved here we voted at local Baptist Churches which always struck me as a little off. At some point, they made some changes and after that we voted at the local sports and recreation centre (county park) - I just looked and all the locations are community centres, supervisor of elections or county owned 'polling places' (buildings on county land used for a polling place).
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Post by cmpeter on Aug 2, 2020 3:17:04 GMT
It’s by mail now. But, before it was either a school or church.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2020 3:31:15 GMT
Our polling place has been at the same church for the 15 years we’ve lived here. One time when they streamlined locations, it was at a different church. And just one time it was in the parking lot of something like a rotary club or something like that. It was weird.
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Post by cadoodlebug on Aug 2, 2020 3:33:34 GMT
Garage, library, senior center, school, etc.
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janeliz
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Post by janeliz on Aug 2, 2020 3:45:22 GMT
Typically, we use schools, churches, and community centers.
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Post by magenta on Aug 2, 2020 3:52:58 GMT
We've voted at schools, churches and library community rooms. During the 2000 election, we voted at a polling station set up in the front of our neighborhood supermarket. The section normally used for displays had a few booths and a tables for volunteers and polling workers. While DH voted, I went grocery shopping.
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Post by scrapsotime on Aug 2, 2020 3:55:51 GMT
The closest to us is an Eagles Club. Closest to work is a grocery store. We can vote at any location.
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Post by padresfan619 on Aug 2, 2020 4:01:25 GMT
I have voted at a church, a school rec room and at a library.
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Post by salem on Aug 2, 2020 4:29:30 GMT
We vote at one of our local elementary schools now, but at one point our assigned polling station was at a horse racetrack. It was torn down a couple years ago and we were moved to the school.
Some people in town are assigned to the Senior Center and some to the Town Hall, but mostly schools are used.
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luckyjune
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Post by luckyjune on Aug 2, 2020 5:00:08 GMT
Currently, it's my kitchen table.
Previously, a school. Before that, a fire station.
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Post by ntsf on Aug 2, 2020 5:11:18 GMT
garages, schools, churches, city hall is open, --we usually have lots of polling places, but with all that is going on.. everyone is being encourage to mail the ballots. we can start counting ballots 29 days before election. we have often drop mail in ballots at poll places.. they all have a special box.
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pancakes
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Post by pancakes on Aug 2, 2020 7:57:08 GMT
Ours is a building in our nearby park. I enjoy walking to the polling place for some reason. I requested a mail-in ballot for the first time, though.
I’ve voted at the library and at my college before.
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MDscrapaholic
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Post by MDscrapaholic on Aug 2, 2020 10:17:31 GMT
I can’t imagine using someone’s garage to vote! Here it was the fire house when I first voted. Now it’s at the high school gymnasium.
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Post by lisae on Aug 2, 2020 11:20:33 GMT
We voted at the community building for many years. Finally, someone realized a building at the end of a dead end road with no clear turnaround wasn't the best spot so they moved us to the local elementary school.
Recently we were relocated to a church gymnasium. There is plenty of parking, lots of room of social distancing this election year, and even a covered drop-off right in front of the door.
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Post by fruitysuet on Aug 2, 2020 11:28:54 GMT
We currently vote in the village café, but previously it was someone's kitchen. I did a bit of a Google search and most polling stations in our county are community/village/church halls or primary (elementary schools). I do know of a polling station that is a mobile unit in a car park, others that are in pubs and another local one is in the supermarket café.
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Post by mikklynn on Aug 2, 2020 11:52:13 GMT
We voted at a church or elementary school. When we did early voting, it was at the water treatment facility.
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