USA voters: have you found out your polling place yet? where is it?

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mine's at a mormon church in east hollywood.

Schwarzwalder Kirschtorte (get bent), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 02:37 (sixteen years ago)

my old elementary school

ILX MOD (musically), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 02:41 (sixteen years ago)

same place as always, but i'll probably be in PA on election day and will vote absentee

gabbneb, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 02:42 (sixteen years ago)

international brotherhood of electrical workers

lil yawne (harbl), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 02:42 (sixteen years ago)

mailbox

h.i.m. (jergins), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 02:43 (sixteen years ago)

PS 143. 5 streets down from my apartment.

Mordy, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 02:44 (sixteen years ago)

Same place since I cast a fake kid vote for Dukakis in 88... a grungy old suburban NJ VFW hall that last saw a paint job in the 50s.

burt_stanton, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 02:45 (sixteen years ago)

mine's the church down the street. no one should not know where their polling place is unless they voted absentee in the primary, though!!!! or, like in 2004, the polling places were rearranged/rezoned like what happened to me! cept i was absentee then and i'm pretty sure that my vote was never counted since i didn't find out the destination for my ballot had changed until after i sent it in! tricky bastards waited til like 2 weeks before voting day to send out notices!

highly theoretical, of course. (tehresa), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 02:46 (sixteen years ago)

Oh yeah, I don't trust that absentee ballot shit. "Where do we put this box of absentee ballots sir?" "I don't know, ask Greg." "Yeah, all right." 400 years later under a mile of rubble and dust a team of interplanetary archaeologists uncover a mysterious box full of papers that all read "OBAMA "

burt_stanton, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 02:47 (sixteen years ago)

absentee votes aren't counted unless someone calls shenanigans with the election results, right?

Schwarzwalder Kirschtorte (get bent), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 02:50 (sixteen years ago)

fortunately i've never voted in a state where the results would be questionable and it would actually matter. but that does not mean you shouldn't vote!!!! VOTE, PEOPLE!!!

highly theoretical, of course. (tehresa), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 02:51 (sixteen years ago)

It was a sad little bit of portent voting in 2004 in a church with a 30-foot cross towering over the voting booths.

Abbott, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 02:52 (sixteen years ago)

the absentee votes not counted thing is a myth. they have to be counted.

lil yawne (harbl), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 03:00 (sixteen years ago)

in theory

lil yawne (harbl), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 03:01 (sixteen years ago)

The old Natl. Guard armory two blocks away. I go past it most nights when I walk the dog. Elvis, Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins played a show there on 12/12/55. (This poster date is wrong.)

http://www.elvisblog.net/Bogus%20Elvis%20&%20Johnny%20Cash%20Poster%20.jpg

...apparently one of only two concerts that all three did together.

I'm the wire monkey, not the soft monkey (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 03:03 (sixteen years ago)

The fucking Minnesota polling place finder website is broken!

I should still be voting at the elementary school near my house, but still, wtf

Dan I., Tuesday, 7 October 2008 03:03 (sixteen years ago)

on absentee ballot counting:

http://web.archive.org/web/20041010200246/http://www.electionline.org/site/docs/html/counting_absentee_ballots.htm

Schwarzwalder Kirschtorte (get bent), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 03:13 (sixteen years ago)

A Lutheran Church about eight blocks away.

jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 03:15 (sixteen years ago)

i've been a poll worker before. you had to go to a class, but overall it's pretty low maintenance.

highly theoretical, of course. (tehresa), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 03:15 (sixteen years ago)

This is my first presidential vote not in a big perpetual swing state which requires me to go out to the local elementary school and instead is pretty comfortably blue and my county is all mail-in. Voting a week or two before election day seems like it might be kind of boring.

with one and a half pair of pants you ain't cool (joygoat), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 03:25 (sixteen years ago)

ps 46!

donna rouge, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 03:28 (sixteen years ago)

i voted by affidavit in september (had just moved a month ago and hadn't re-registered) and apparently that was enough for them to change my address entirely, which i thought wasn't these things worked. but the website says what the website says

donna rouge, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 03:30 (sixteen years ago)

i have no doubt about an obama landslide in california. i'm just psyched to vote yes on measure r (minor local sales tax increase that would fund transportation infrastructure) and hell no on prop 8 (california's attempt to ban gay marriage).

Schwarzwalder Kirschtorte (get bent), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 03:40 (sixteen years ago)

The International Union of Operating Engineers.

not a Georgia peach but a Maryland crab (j.lu), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 03:48 (sixteen years ago)

I'm currently drinking beer and watching "the Sea Devils" in my polling place. Oregon rules.

Lolcats ate mah baby! (kingfish), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 03:51 (sixteen years ago)

absentee. i would rather vote in person (since turning 18 i've ONLY voted absentee!), but i'm moving to a new state on the last day for registration in that state and don't want to take chances of not being able to register due to any unlucky happenings that day.

Maria, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 03:52 (sixteen years ago)

http://beabsentee.org/

reportedly this site is helpful

Lolcats ate mah baby! (kingfish), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 07:11 (sixteen years ago)

The nearest polling place is about an hour away, so I'm voting via absentee.

kate78, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 07:44 (sixteen years ago)

City Hall! About a 5 minute bike ride.

Evel Knievel's Dark Side (Pancakes Hackman), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 13:25 (sixteen years ago)

quaker church around the corner as always

akm, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 14:14 (sixteen years ago)

Question: I don't think the people who mail polling place notices know that I moved last year (I'm not even sure how to tell them). So I'll have to vote in my old area, right? That's okay, I can get there. But do I have to have the card that comes in the mail WITH ME at the polling station? Or can I just show up with my ID?

Vampire romances depend on me (Laurel), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 14:17 (sixteen years ago)

Mine is just down the street in the garage of an apartment building but I'm going down to the Department of Elections at City Hall and voting this weekend.

Michael White, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 14:29 (sixteen years ago)

Mine would be 3 blocks up the hill to the International Terrace room of the retirement apartment building at 6th and Washington, but since I'm a permanent absentee voter, I can either mail in my ballot or drop it off in the box at the King County admin building.

WA is going 100% vote-by-mail for the next election I think (maybe the one after next).

Jaq, Sunday, 19 October 2008 00:48 (sixteen years ago)

I vote at an elementary school three blocks up the street from me, on 21st Avenue.

If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Sunday, 19 October 2008 01:00 (sixteen years ago)

"Garage". No, that's what it says, and that's what it looks to be on a map. Someone's home.

LJ OA UG IG SE RR (libcrypt), Sunday, 19 October 2008 01:13 (sixteen years ago)

Since I work downtown now, the county courthouse (where another ilxor works!) is just a few blocks away from where I work. My polling place where I'm registered requires me driving halfway to the mall and back. So I've been voting early at the courthouse (or across the street at its addition) since I got the new job a year ago.

BUT HERE'S ANOTHER THING, I haven't changed my driver's license address since I moved. I'm sure there's some sort of easy way to change my voting address at the same time that I get a new license, but I don't know how it works. So I was stressing a bit because the election is on NOV. 2 and my driver's license expires on my birthday, NOV. 3.

But it I vote early, I can still claim my old address and use my old license. So that's what I'm going to do next week -- go vote and go get a new license, in that order.

I'm also going to get a new haircut for the license.

☑ (Pleasant Plains), Sunday, 19 October 2008 02:10 (sixteen years ago)

election ist november fourth!

schlump, Sunday, 19 October 2008 02:57 (sixteen years ago)

My polling place is that celebrated kitchen table around which, if the hackneyed political trope is to be believed, so many true-blue Americans have discussed the issues of the day and balanced their meager household budgets, while sucking on the erasers of pencils.

This is because I live in Oregon and all our elections are conducted via a mail-in ballot. As a matter of fact, I just got my ballot in the mail today.

Aimless, Sunday, 19 October 2008 03:04 (sixteen years ago)

That's right. So I would have to get my license changed before Monday and have my voter card changed before Tuesday.

Which is possible, and truth be told, I can refuse to show ID in my state which makes my ballot "disputed" and only counted if there's a tie.

Still going to go with the old address for this one.

☑ (Pleasant Plains), Sunday, 19 October 2008 03:06 (sixteen years ago)

here. i'm gonna have to take the kids w/me to vote. that should be fun...

tipsy mothra, Sunday, 19 October 2008 04:52 (sixteen years ago)

just voted!

the RHETERIC (kingfish), Sunday, 19 October 2008 04:54 (sixteen years ago)


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