Have you voted in a Mosque?
And would you have a problem if you had to take off your shoes, cover your head (if you are a man) or cover your face (if you are a woman) and break for prayer 5 times during the election day?
would you have a problem if you had to take off your shoes,
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To visit the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem 20 years ago, we had to take our shoes off...
Waaaaaaay outside several yards away from the building...
That was the only restriction though...
We got to keep our Bibles...
now no Bibles are allowed...
I dont know if women can go in or go in uncovered as the moslems own the property now..
The mosques in the US have strict rules..Sharia Law stuff...
So I doubt they would be accepable as polling places...
Of course the ACLU would not care...
The churches here have rules on clothing but they arent pushed on polling days...
IMHO, voting is different from working the polls. However I would have a problem with this as it forces me to adopt their requirements before I could VOTE, and my constitutional right overrides the religious codes that would seek to force me to recognize islam against my personal beliefs. If a facility is open to the public for this secular/governmental function, it must with hold its requirements or host it in a part of the facility that these requirements are not necessary.
This would go double for non-islamic women who would seek to do their civic duty as poll workers. This example, perhaps makes the rub against no coffee, etc for poll workers in a mormon facility so irritating for many here. Beverage prohibitions in the facility to protect carpets, etc are reasonable - it affects all equally. But a religious restriction simply due to the presence of caffeine and its use by non-members really starts stretching that limit IMHO.
Who is the idiot in charge of polling place locations that would ever create that situation?
Just move the polling place.