OT?? Voting in Garage? California

You got me wondering:

There were a bunch of other hits, but some of them were rather repetitive.

CIndy Hamilton

When I lived in Philly some polling places were in a person's house. Convenient space. Also a funeral home in one area.

Obviously, that's where all the dead people go to vote.

I voted in my neighbor's garage in the 1990s, until he moved.

It was a normal polling place - complete with staff from the county, locked drop boxes, voter registration lists, etc.

After he moved, the polling place moved to a nearby church.

We used to vote at the Methodist Church, because they were the only ones in town with enough room to set up a polling place on a tuesday. The PC crowd made that go away. I am not even sure where my polling place is now. I vote at the dining room table. (mail in)

It does solve the problem of getting them to the polls.

Voting in my area of Nebraska has been in some public place. I first voted at the American Legion Hall in a nearby small town. I might've voted at the fire hall when I lived in another town but I don't remember. Later, it was the basement of the county courthouse after I moved again. I got to vote by mail this last time around. I think I got a form to sign before getting the actual ballot but I don't remember. I vote for Libertarian Party candidates if there are any for an office. It's almost guaranteed the Republican candidate will win.

Other places had room on Wednesdays, etc.?

So someone must have built a new place with enough space for Tuesdays, right?

We still vote in a Lutheran church. What's not "PC" about voting in a church? I wonder if the same people protest bake sales and fish fries in church basements.

Schools are popular as polling places, but they are in session on weekdays. Some of them don't have extra space to set up the polling place.

ISTR that I've always voted in one elementary school or another. I think my current polling place takes over the gym.

Separation of Church and State.

Unless I miss my guess, there's no federal mandate to attend fish fries. ;)

Cindy Hamilton

It a building. You don't get baptized while casting your ballot. Usually in the church all that you can rent for a wedding or a satanist party.

Some schools close on election day just because of that. I voted at the jr high school in Maryland and school was out. They made it some kind of "teacher day". These days with school security being what it is, I doubt they would let people in if school was open to anyone else.

It was something like that. They may have reimbursed the church for expenses or something and that would really freak out the atheists. I just know it changed and it wasn't the church's decision. (Several of our old HOA folks are/were very active there). They bounced around from the library to some other spot and now I think it is the village community center. I haven't "in person" voted since 2004 when mail in ballots came about.

I agree. This wasn't really in the church anyway. It was just a big assembly building on church grounds with no particular interior decoration that should offend anyone but folks got their knickers in a knot anyway. You didn't even drive into the church entrance. The lot is accessed from a county road out of sight of the church itself. I guess the God Cooties might get on you if you went there.

That was convenient for the dead Democrats...

I believe we're talking about "PC" snowflakes.

My current polling place is the Arab-American Cultural Center. It used to be the Roberto Clemente School (for kids who got into trouble at the regular schools), but the school district closed it in 2015 and sold or rented out the building.

I haven't voted in person since before the switchover, since voting by mail is so much more convenient.

Cindy Hamilton

You can if you trip!

But voting in churches is legal in the US everywhere afaik, or almost everywhere. And we only have one person saying that the church he used to vote in is not permitted because of the "PC crowd". Perhaps Fretwell jumped to conclusions or is otherwise mistaken.

They had enough complaints that they moved it. That is what the church people I know told me. The new people wanted it in a non sectarian government facility. When this was still a small town the church was OK but when the population expanded 10x in 10 years a lot of things got changed just because it was how they did it up north.