You want me to vote where?

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Greenfair HOA building,
my old polling place

I’d like to open up this forum for people to bitch and complain about their polling places. Mine was moved from its usual location at the Greenfair community room on Broadway, a tranquil, tree-covered setting with ample parking, to the County primary care center on the corner of Stockton & Broadway.

Any other Tahoe Parkers out there ready to write to the local officials and ask for Greenfair back?

The new location is on the second floor, and it was easy to find only if you entered from the front of the building…which is on Broadway, not adjacent to any parking. If you parked and entered from the side, there was a single sign by the door, a few surly security guards guiding potential voters, an elevator ride, and some serious guesswork… in short, potentially actionable civil rights violations (I am only being about 80% sarcastic). I try hard to sympathize with polling place workers because while they usually seem completely unprepared, I’m sure that can be blamed entirely on whoever put them there and organized the proceedings (I counted 58 separate types of ballots last night). But is it too much to ask that, since a polling place is usually the kind of place you only go once a year (these days though, it’s more like 3 times in 6 months. Seriously, I’m Democracy-d out right now), there be “POLLING PLACE THIS WAY” signs about every 3 feet?

And all that work for a ballot that only included about 2 candidates facing an opponent. Stand strong Tahoe Park, we will have our justice!

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Author: CoolDMZ

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5 thoughts on “You want me to vote where?”

  1. Are you sure you’re in Tahoe Park? How did you end up with a polling place on Stockton & Broadway? My Tahoe Park polling place is the Wesley United Methodist Church at 5010 15th Avenue and it’s quite nice.

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  4. Your polling place may have just moved for this primary election. Elections forecasted to have low voter turnout (such as school board elections and primaries), polling places are sometimes consolidated so they don’t have to have as many open or recruit as many volunteers. So, you might just have your beloved regular polling place open for the general election in November. (And thank you for voting; you are now hereby entitled to complain about local and state issues.)

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