maryannscraps
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Aug 28, 2017 12:51:28 GMT
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Post by maryannscraps on Aug 2, 2020 12:10:26 GMT
Ours is at the elementary school, and the students have the day off.
In previous addresses, I've voted at a church and Town Hall.
This year, Massachusetts is offering mail-in voting to all. Every registered voter has been mailed a form to request an absentee ballot. So I'll be voting by mail. They are still offering in-person voting, but I won't be there.
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milocat
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Location: 55 degrees north in Alberta, Canada
Mar 18, 2015 4:10:31 GMT
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Post by milocat on Aug 2, 2020 13:14:22 GMT
Around here it's the hall, all our towns or community/areas have them whether the building is big or small.
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snyder
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Location: Colorado
Apr 26, 2017 6:14:47 GMT
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Post by snyder on Aug 2, 2020 13:33:22 GMT
We have a variety of places to vote, City Clerk's Office, libraries, 2 malls, a few churches. The majority do mail in ballots and we have 35 locations with secure drop boxes. In 1960, the year Kennedy was voted in as president, our garage was the polling place. At that time, most all elementary schools were used for polls, but the school in this area was not completed on time, thus they asked for a volunteer to have it at their home and my dad jumped at the idea. He was given a nice big flag to hang outside to mark our house as the polling place. I was only 5, so don't remember a lot, but a woman with spiked heels about feel on her butt when she tripped on a throw rug. The things we remember. My parents had recently moved to that home as new constructions, so everything was very new and my mom was worried about all the foot traffic so she put done throw rugs.
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Apr 19, 2024 23:34:40 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2020 13:40:38 GMT
Prior to the increased school security, polling stations were in elementary schools in their gyms. Kids simply didn't have PE that day. Because some schools used the gym as their cafeteria as well, they would close school for the day to hold the election. I used to be able to walk to my polling station because it was in a school building about a half mile away.
Then all of the increased school security happened. Rather than to close school for the day, they moved and merged several stations. Now I have to go to a mega church that's a mile away and on the other side of a very busy road. I could walk if I wanted to but the busy road doesn't have sidewalks.
Now we have absentee voting for all so I may never go back there.
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Apr 19, 2024 23:34:40 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2020 13:47:17 GMT
If I vote the day of it is a local Episcopal church. However usually there is early voting and it has been in schools, a government building and an empty storefront. Very convenient. I do this when I know I will be working because if I get stuck late it's too stressful. This year I am registered for a mail in ballot and in Washington where I lived for about 9 years I always voted by mail. In college I voted by mail in Pennsylvania in 1996! Then I got called for jury duty as I was graduating and moving back home.
In high school when we turned 18 we were allowed/encouraged to register to vote in the front office and voting was at the elementary school.
Ah memories!!
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Post by peasapie on Aug 2, 2020 14:13:46 GMT
Usually a school when in the suburbs or city; here in rural life, in a fire house. I've never heard of voting in a private residence until now.
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Post by MissBianca on Aug 2, 2020 14:15:19 GMT
The lower level of our town hall. We have one big open conference space where they have all the town meetings and voting. Its also right in the middle of town which I like.
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katybee
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Jun 25, 2014 23:25:39 GMT
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Post by katybee on Aug 2, 2020 14:30:29 GMT
When I lived in San Francisco, I voted in many garages! And the polling places were very close together (I guess due to the density of people). Here in Texas, it’s mostly schools, libraries and community centers.
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katybee
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Jun 25, 2014 23:25:39 GMT
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Post by katybee on Aug 2, 2020 14:32:09 GMT
My school is often a polling place—and we do NOT have the day off. Something makes me think that will not be happening this year...
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PLurker
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Location: Behind the Cheddar Curtain
Jun 28, 2014 3:48:49 GMT
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Post by PLurker on Aug 2, 2020 14:35:29 GMT
town hall.
or if I vote early, clerk's office. (front of town hall, different entrance with post office)
home if I vote by mail which we are doing and then probably DS dropping ballots at above mentioned post office so it basically stays in house, no travel in mail stream.
the perks of rural living. step in door, 2 steps to left, post office window. 3 steps straight ahead, clerk's window.
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basketdiva
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Jun 26, 2014 11:45:09 GMT
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Post by basketdiva on Aug 2, 2020 14:54:54 GMT
My kitchen table. WA has only had mail-in ballots for years.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Aug 2, 2020 15:18:24 GMT
When we lived in the city, it was at the rec center attached to the local elementary school. Once we moved it was at the town hall if you vote in person or at the government center if you vote early. Here anyone can request an absentee mail in ballot without needing a reason, and that’s what I did for this year. I believe the filled in ballot sealed in the signed official envelope can also be dropped off at the government center early.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Aug 2, 2020 15:30:03 GMT
the privacy curtains in the booths. Speaking of.... With the old old machines they threw a switch and the curtains closed and opened. The last machines I used the voter had to open the curtains With hands and walk through/into them. Full body touching including face, upper body a s well as hands! SO not good! Voting at a grocery store and/or a person's garage seem most unusual to me and I have been voting 55 years. Schools, firehouses, community centers, senior housing buildings, town hall. When they torn down our community center we were sent to a building in a county park.
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Post by hop2 on Aug 2, 2020 15:30:15 GMT
Schools Library Town hall Rex center ( town owned ) Fire houses if they have a large room
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Post by Eddie-n-Harley on Aug 2, 2020 16:21:10 GMT
When I was a child, the polling place was the town hall.
I have also voted in a library, an elemetary school, and the community room of a nearby assisted living? facility.
We didn't know where the polling place would be moved to for the state's April election, so I voted in my living room with a mail in ballot.
I also once voted in the city clerk's office when I went in person for an absentee ballot.
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caangel
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Location: So Cal
Jun 26, 2014 16:42:12 GMT
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Post by caangel on Aug 2, 2020 16:54:54 GMT
Ours used to be a school, my kids' school, and no day off. Security nightmare. Last year our county (state? CA) changed how they do polling locations. There are fewer locations but they are more accessible, you can vote at any location, they have early voting locations and everyone got sent a mail in ballot.
I'm just so glad our school isn't being used.
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Post by vspindler on Aug 2, 2020 16:55:14 GMT
My polling place is inside a Methodist church. Like inside where they actually hold the services. Always seemed a bit off to me.
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Post by ajsweetpea on Aug 2, 2020 17:17:33 GMT
Where I live now, we vote at a school (schools are closed every Election Day). When I lived in a different state previously, I voted at a community center for senior citizens. I can't remember where I went to vote in a third state I lived in (I voted in my first election there and I definitely remember going to vote) and it's totally driving me crazy trying to figure out where I voted!
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Post by littlemama on Aug 3, 2020 1:51:30 GMT
Mostly school, some churches. For several years we voted at the fire station.
Where I work, there is a polling station at the city golf course
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georgiapea
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Jun 27, 2014 18:02:10 GMT
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Post by georgiapea on Aug 3, 2020 3:25:35 GMT
Firehouse.
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