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Started by ZLoth, October 28, 2024, 07:17:50 PM

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hbelkins

Kentucky prohibits the sale of alcohol while the polls are open (6 a.m.-6 p.m. local time on Election Day).
Government would be tolerable if not for politicians and bureaucrats.


Mapmikey

Quote from: hbelkins on October 30, 2024, 02:42:48 PMKentucky prohibits the sale of alcohol while the polls are open (6 a.m.-6 p.m. local time on Election Day).

Repealed statewide in 2016 - now each county decides whether to prohibit or not.

https://www.uky.edu/electionlaw/analysis/fear-and-loathing-election-day


rlb2024

When I was a teenager in Memphis our voting location moved several times.  Once it was in the clubhouse of a municipal golf course (alcohol sales were prohibited until the polls closed, which royally ticked off the golfers).  Another time it was in a fraternity house for Memphis State University (this was not an Animal House-type building, it was a converted dormitory).  When I moved to Louisiana my first voting location was in someone's garage.  Where we live now it has been in a couple of churches and schools, but we always do early-vote now in the parish council office.

NWI_Irish96

There was a TV series called How the States Got Their Shapes and on one episode, the host went and voted at someone's house in California. Just a regular house that people were living in.
Indiana: counties 100%, highways 100%
Illinois: counties 100%, highways 61%
Michigan: counties 100%, highways 56%
Wisconsin: counties 86%, highways 23%

mgk920

Quote from: mgk920 on October 29, 2024, 02:18:54 PM
Quote from: Big John on October 29, 2024, 12:44:54 PM
Quote from: GaryV on October 29, 2024, 12:41:01 PM
Quote from: 1995hoo on October 29, 2024, 12:19:24 PMyou go to the particular polling place regardless of the primary in which you plan to vote and you just tell them which party's ballot you want

In Michigan, both parties' candidates are on the same ballot in a primary, and you are told to vote in only one party.
In Wisconsin too. The first item on the primary ballot is which party you will be voting in.

Here in Appleton, WI, all of the local polling places throughout my lifetime were usually in schools or churches.  My current 'election day' polling place is a church rectory (in the door, up the short flight of stairs, down the short hallway, past the cardboard cutout of Papa Francisco and there is the polling room).  I have also never had to declare to the poll workers any party affiliation for partisan primaries (one of the beauties of not registering by party, a Wisconsin thing).  I can also 'early vote' at the city clerk's office on the sixth floor of Appleton's city hall, but the wait time was 1 to 1.5 hours each of the several times that I tried that route this election.

Mike

I finally 'early voted' this afternoon at the Appleton city clerk's office, there was no line to speak of and was in and out in 15-20 minutes.  No pain and no hassles.

 :nod:

Mike

Road Hog

When I voted in 2016 the polling was held in the old, old, old high school gymnasium at the ISD administration HQ that used to be the high school.

I had never seen a 50-foot basketball court before that actually held regulation games back in the day. But I was told since then that some schools play in old WPA rock gyms today that are still like that.



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