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Title: not a good idea to locate a voting center in a police station
Post by: dutch508 on May 07, 2015, 09:55:57 AM
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Gothmog (16,387 posts) http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251406645

It is not a good idea to locate a voting center in a police station or branch office

Excuse my frustration. My county is adopting countywide voting which means that on election day a voter can vote at any voting location in the county and not just at their local precinct. I have been an election judge a couple of times each cycle and it is painful to tell someone five minutes before polls close that they are at the wrong location. This plan eliminates that problem.

We had a meeting to discuss locations for polling center and two GOP mayors of small towns really wanted polling locations/voting centers in their local police stations. My county party chair and I went nuts on this suggestion and hurt their feelings. We also had an argument that if it was okay to have a polling location at a supermarket where white people shop, then it was also okay to have a voting center at an other supermarket where less well off people shopped.

It was a frustrating meeting


Just a bit racist there, aren't you, DUmpmonkie? Are you saying minorities are all criminals and won't go to the police station to vote because they have warrants?

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TreasonousBastard (25,161 posts)
1. We use schools, churches, and community centers...

along with the occasional senior center.

Dunno why supermarkets and police stations would be considered.

(Security? People gotta shop?)


Small town- we use the city hall and the fire station.

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Downwinder (10,662 posts)
3. Better than a church basement.

It depends on space and location more than anything else.

Pretty new thread and the OP didn't get the outcry he wanted. Hopefully it will flare up when the DUmpmonkies wake up from the cheap wine and cheetos hangover and crawl out of their mothers basements to log on.

Title: Re: not a good idea to locate a voting center in a police station
Post by: dane on May 07, 2015, 10:09:21 AM
Just a bit racist there, aren't you, DUmpmonkie? Are you saying minorities are all criminals and won't go to the police station to vote because they have warrants?
Racist indeed!  The DUmmies should be all over this, contrasting 'white people' with 'less well off people'.
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polling location at a supermarket where white people shop, then it was also okay to have a voting center at an other supermarket where less well off people shopped.
Title: Re: not a good idea to locate a voting center in a police station
Post by: FiddyBeowulf on May 07, 2015, 10:48:04 AM
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Gothmog (16,387 posts) http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251406645

 My county is adopting countywide voting which means that on election day a voter can vote at any voting location in the county and not just at their local precinct.
By "a voter can vote at any voting location in the county" the DUmmie means that the leftie voter should go to each voting location and vote.
Title: Re: not a good idea to locate a voting center in a police station
Post by: HawkHogan on May 07, 2015, 12:23:00 PM
By "a voter can vote at any voting location in the county" the DUmmie means that the leftie voter should go to each voting location and vote.

Exactly.

If you are too stupid to know your polling place, you are too stupid to vote.
Title: Re: not a good idea to locate a voting center in a police station
Post by: Ptarmigan on May 08, 2015, 12:00:49 AM
They should not vote if they complain about voting centers at police stations.
Title: Re: not a good idea to locate a voting center in a police station
Post by: obumazombie on May 08, 2015, 03:05:37 AM
Libs are provoking conservatives by bashing the police.
Title: Re: not a good idea to locate a voting center in a police station
Post by: Bad Dog on May 08, 2015, 04:21:48 AM
Libs are provoking conservatives by bashing the police.

Sounds like you are getting ready to issue a fatwad Zombie.
Title: Re: not a good idea to locate a voting center in a police station
Post by: SVPete on May 08, 2015, 08:16:45 AM
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We had a meeting to discuss locations for polling center and two GOP mayors of small towns really wanted polling locations/voting centers in their local police stations. My county party chair and I went nuts on this suggestion and hurt their feelings. We also had an argument that if it was okay to have a polling location at a supermarket where white people shop, then it was also okay to have a voting center at an other supermarket where less well off people shopped.

Whole lotta stereotyping going on!

In the SF Bay Area a multi-location big-box athletic equipment store sets aside space for a "community room". I wonder how many and what stereotypes could be wrung from proposing that for a polling station ...

Whatever happened to going with places that are nearby, large enough, accessible, have sufficient parking, and free?
Title: Re: not a good idea to locate a voting center in a police station
Post by: Gina on May 08, 2015, 08:21:27 AM
churches and fire stations here mostly. 
Title: Re: not a good idea to locate a voting center in a police station
Post by: Gina on May 08, 2015, 08:22:15 AM
Exactly.

If you are too stupid to know your polling place, you are too stupid to vote.

I know!  Every time I get ready to vote I double check on my assigned polling station by calling the election commission.  I figured everyone did this.
Title: Re: not a good idea to locate a voting center in a police station
Post by: SVPete on May 08, 2015, 08:52:31 AM
churches and fire stations here mostly.

Usually a church fellowship hall for us, though we have voted at a school. In 1982 or (and?) 1984 it was a mobile-home park commons room. There's a school district office almost across the street from us that has been used as a polling place many times, but never for our precinct.
Title: Re: not a good idea to locate a voting center in a police station
Post by: FiddyBeowulf on May 08, 2015, 08:56:11 AM
I know!  Every time I get ready to vote I double check on my assigned polling station by calling the election commission.  I figured everyone did this.
Most city or village clerks list polling station location on the local gov't website. That is what I check before I vote.
Title: Re: not a good idea to locate a voting center in a police station
Post by: landofconfusion80 on May 08, 2015, 09:07:48 AM
We vote at the old abandoned school next door.  The big plus to this is that the school board mows the area and makes it look good for about 2 weeks.
Title: Re: not a good idea to locate a voting center in a police station
Post by: BlueStateSaint on May 08, 2015, 09:34:07 AM
churches and fire stations here mostly.

Same here.
Title: Re: not a good idea to locate a voting center in a police station
Post by: diesel driver on May 08, 2015, 10:10:29 PM
My polling place has changed 3 times in the 38 years I've been voting.

First it was an elementary school, then a fire station.

Now, it's the basement of the community building, across the street from the sheriff's office, and half a block from the town police office.   :rotf:
Title: Re: not a good idea to locate a voting center in a police station
Post by: obumazombie on May 08, 2015, 10:42:16 PM
Sounds like you are getting ready to issue a fatwad Zombie.

I am considering a crusade over the subject of provocation.
Title: Re: not a good idea to locate a voting center in a police station
Post by: diesel driver on May 09, 2015, 07:35:12 AM
I am considering a crusade over the subject of provocation.

Provocation is a good thing.  Will draw the muhamudeens out like flies to shit.  They can't help themselves.   :-)



Title: Re: not a good idea to locate a voting center in a police station
Post by: JohnnyReb on May 09, 2015, 09:35:55 AM
Voting center in police station....what a great "GREEN" idea....democrats know where their voters are and that won't have to give so many rides to the polling places....save gas and cut their carbon foot print.
Title: Re: not a good idea to locate a voting center in a police station
Post by: diesel driver on May 09, 2015, 06:06:08 PM
Voting center in police station....what a great "GREEN" idea....democrats know where their voters are and that won't have to give so many rides to the polling places....save gas and cut their carbon foot print.

 :II:
Title: Re: not a good idea to locate a voting center in a police station
Post by: Big Dog on May 09, 2015, 07:37:19 PM
My polling place has changed 3 times in the 38 years I've been voting.

First it was an elementary school, then a fire station.

Now, it's the basement of the community building, across the street from the sheriff's office, and half a block from the town police office.   :rotf:

"Help, help. I'm bein' repressed!"

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8ukak8P2vY[/youtube]
Title: Re: not a good idea to locate a voting center in a police station
Post by: diesel driver on May 09, 2015, 07:49:32 PM
"Help, help. I'm bein' repressed!"

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8ukak8P2vY[/youtube]

Considering the sheriff and several deputies are friends of mine, and I know half the town police force (all on a "personal" basis, not a "professional" one, LOL), I'm feeling really, really repressed. 

I've also HAD to show a photo ID EVERY TIME I've voted in the last 38 years.  More repression and suppression of my vote!   :rant: