Where do you vote?

**SouthernBelle** · 10-30-2008, 05:16 AM

I've never voted in a church, but have in all those other places, including firehouse. My current precinct is a community center. But my office is across the street from the election commission, so I always go vote there in early voting. I voted on the 15th.

**Pax** · 10-30-2008, 05:38 AM

Since we bought the house and moved to a new precinct, we're voting someplace new. This year it's at a Quakers Friends Meeting House, I don't know much about Quakers but I think it's their church. It's a neat little building, I'm looking forward to seeing the inside.

**Trek420** · 10-30-2008, 05:57 AM

Community Center, it's a senior community across the street from me. I'd vote absentee but they are closer than the mailbox or local USPO.

See, neutral. I even took off my socks!

**Aggie_Ama** · 10-30-2008, 06:00 AM

I voted OTHER. Currently I can vote at the School Administration Building ( a non-descript strip center) or the Over the Hill Senior Community Club.

When I voted last it was a College Station community center but you could also vote at the Texas A&M Campus. Here they also use grocery stores, churches, schools, performing arts centers (big assembly halls), my Nanny's home is having voting for those registered. They had early voting at the hospital next door to my office.

**DebW** · 10-30-2008, 06:05 AM

The two polling places in my town are the Town Building and the Middle School. I vote at the Town Building. Since I will be one of many people standing at the polling place with signs supporting certain candidates, I hope most people vote in person. At least they will know who is on the ballot for what offices and how much support the candidates have before they walk into the voting booth.

**Veronica** · 10-30-2008, 06:09 AM

If you vote at a school in the early morning - please don't park in the employee parking spots.

I must remember to ride my bike to work next Tuesday.

Veronica

**maillotpois** · 10-30-2008, 06:36 AM

Wow - good point about parking, V!

I also like to go to the physical place to vote. (A city hall for me - used to be a church til we moved across town.) I like experiencing it - and getting the "I voted" sticker!

**sfa** · 10-30-2008, 06:46 AM

I've always voted in a school, and our public schools have always (at least in my life) been closed for election day. Until recently I didn't know that some school systems, maybe most of them, stay open on election day. That must make it difficult for the teachers and students, having to rearrange their schedule to stay away from the areas being used for polling. Normally we use either the gym or the cafeteria for voting, and one school I used to go to was used by two different districts for voting, so one district used the gym and the other used the cafeteria. I can't imagine trying to keep a school open with that kind of traffic coming into the school all day!

Sarah

**dachshund** · 10-30-2008, 07:02 AM

In my area the voting booths are set up in the garages of people's homes. It was the same when I lived in San Francisco.

Now I use the mail-in ballot.

**Veronica** · 10-30-2008, 07:18 AM

Our school library gets used. If you have library that day, you either miss it or go some other time during the week.

Veronica

**Possegal** · 10-30-2008, 07:29 AM

My father owned a moving company and for many years he would bid on, and always get, the contract for moving the voting machines in and out of Pittsburgh (Allegheny county to be exact). We always knew not to bother Daddy when it was 'voting machine time'.

Wish he were still alive, I bet he would have a long list of various voting stations.

I like to go to the polls on election day. It was always a big thing in my family, to go with my father when he voted (Mum was an alien and couldn't vote). All of my sibs and I have a memory of at some point asking him who he voted for and then him spending the rest of the walk/ride home explaining to us how people have died for us to have the right to a secret ballot and that you owe your vote to no one and it was something between you and your God.

I have such a sadness that he died before I could vote in my first big election, I would have loved to have gone and actually voted with him.

I've voted mostly in schools since I left Pittsburgh, and my Catholic grade school was a polling place when I was growing up. At home though, we voted at the Presbyterian church one block down the street.

Memories.......

**OakLeaf** · 10-30-2008, 07:36 AM

Originally Posted by maillotpois

and getting the "I voted" sticker!

I usually put those on a trash can or toilet seat after I get home...

**Aggie_Ama** · 10-30-2008, 07:44 AM

Originally Posted by maillotpois

I like experiencing it - and getting the "I voted" sticker!

My Pawpaw must have as well, they were on his jewelry chest and filing cabinets. I was so sad the first year I voted after he passed they didn't have them!

**sgtiger** · 10-30-2008, 09:02 AM

The first time I voted, it was in a gathering hall in a mobile home park(before Oregon went all mail-in). I kinda thought I had the address wrong or something at the time. When we lived in Washington, I voted absentee for the convenience factor. Well.... when I voted.

I think I only voted once the whole time we lived in Washington.

**snapdragen** · 10-30-2008, 11:59 AM

Originally Posted by maillotpois

Wow - good point about parking, V!

I also like to go to the physical place to vote. (A city hall for me - used to be a church til we moved across town.) I like experiencing it - and getting the "I voted" sticker!

This year they included an "I voted" sticker with my mail in ballot.

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