There are polling places in mosques these days
In south carolina, we vote in schools all the time. Actually kids are off school tomorrow.
Nah ... Schools are used because they have big facilities that are used only part of the day, lots of parking, and high visibility.
Churches are also used in both CT and IL. I have voted at Catholic Churches and Protestant Churches. I presently vote at the fire station, even when fire district funding is on the ballot.
What’s the big deal? My polling place is in a church. They’re usually in a place with a big open space.
Check for wall decorations and raise HH if there is any form of propaganda.
The change of location might be suspect - but as a previous poster noted; schools have traditionally been polling places in most States - they are public property.
Every elementary school I ever went to had polling places setup on election day. I always thought that was dumb, elementary schools tend to have small parking lots since the students don’t drive, and thick traffic flow at the beginning and end of the day. Neither of my high schools, with the bigger parking lots and easier traffic, had polling. I think that was my first lesson that government employees don’t tend to be the brightest and the best.
Schools are probably the most common of all polling places.
I work for a school district in the Sacramento area. In the staff lunch room at one of my sites there sits a wicker basket on a table that is full of Yes on 30/No on 32 buttons and window stickers. That wicker basket has been full of these items for weeks now, with no evidence that staff here have taken any. I’ve only seen a few vehicles with the window stickers. The vast majority of the vehicles in the staff parking lot have no political stickers of any kind. It feels surreal, actually.
Interesting note, Johnson got a further 8%...
My local polling place has always been either a school or church (TX).
Why would you suspect ulterior motives? S/
This reminds me of a local school bond vote that had been rejected twice already. For the third try they scheduled it for a low-turnout off-year election. Then the local school district office was chosen as the polling place and teachers and staff were bussed in from all over the district to dutifully vote in favor of the new tax.
Ulterior motives? Never!
Naw...no big deal.
You should have seen the liberals face when she realized she had to vote inside a Catholic Church in 2010....now that was funny....she would not even park in the parking lot!
Georgia regularly uses schools as polling stations. Long lines of people will fit in the gym during inclimate weather.
And cost could play a role.
12284. Upon request of the elections official, state-owned buildings, parking lots, and other facilities shall be made available free of charge for use as polling places, except that the Department of General Services may exclude from use as polling places state facilities at which access to confidential materials cannot be reasonably safeguarded, which are inaccessible to the public, the use of which would disrupt state business, or which are otherwise impractical for use as polling places.
I’ve lived in 6 states and schools have alwasy served as polling places in every state I’ve lived in.
I vote in the same school I was in during elementary (1973-79)
Our county has always used all the schools. This year our polling place is a Fire station and we also have one at our church.
The polling place in which I work is in a church basement, with a ground level entry. At the door there is a painting of a larger than life Jesus reaching out to small children. I’m shocked that no liberal has raised a stink about that to the board of elections.
I’ve only ever voted in a school... usually the cafeteria. Must be different state to state
Stop looking for conspiracies and vote your wallet and your conscience, bearing in mind the $500 million that LA voters approved a few years ago to build a single high school in LA County.
Buildings don’t educate people, teachers do and a teacher can teach in an abandoned bus stop if that’s what is available.