Several precincts vote in the church less than a mile from my house. It’s fairly well set up once you get in the building. Rarely have to wait more than a few minutes, but I do usually go early in the morning.
Big problem is the polling place is far enough inside the building that campaigners can be outside, around 20 feet or so from the entrance. Kind of have to walk a gauntlet to get in the building.
Early voting is done in the local library or on election day at a local church. I think the library covers more of the region vs the church.
I typically vote early and go to the library afterwards to look for any books I might check out.
For early voting we use the grocery store nearest the house. It's not a polling place for all elections. For those, we use an elementary school gym a little farther away. Very rarely is there a line more than 4-5 deep at the times we go. I haven't seen campaign workers outside the polls since I've been here (20 years) - just signs piled up outside the exclusion area.
I did see a news crew once, and they were warned by the election judge not to engage voters in political discussions while they were in line.
My district population is 1,541 with 716 households.
Median income is $43,011.
Demographics are 96.7% white, 1.4% hispanic, and fractional for the rest of the demographic data.
Basically we're semi-rural bedroom country.
The polling place location is the local volunteer fire company's hall in the nearest place that passes as a town. I spoke with the poll workers both last year and the year before about turn out. It's pretty common for them to get 700-900 people through there during the day. I rarely wait more than 5 minutes, but I typically get there at 6:30pm.
There were had 4 booths in there last September. They were the psudo electronic ones where the ballot is a laminated piece of paper and you push the underlying button then hit the big red commit button on the bottom right. Supposedly we're switching to ClearCast machines this year which are marked paper that you feed into an optical scanner.
bobzilla said:stupid easy. Any polling stating in the county. We have 10 different polling stations. Always a small line (10-15 minute wait). Scan the back of your state issued ID, scribble a signature on an ipad. Use an electronic machine. Been this way for a while now.
I guess it could be a problem if you don't have a state issued ID (that's free if you don't have one) but you can't do anything without an ID at this point. You need it to collect welfare, get a job, drive a car etc.
Wait, they force you to show your ID to vote? That is racist
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