Polling place voting hours are available online through the Polling Place Search here.
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Voters can find their election day polling place with the state's voter lookup or polling place tools.
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No loitering is allowed in the polling place and the sheriff also checks outside the polling place for any irregularities.
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A fire at a factory near a polling place might mean city officials reroute voters to a different polling place.
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A notice outside the polling place at La Cienega Park in Los AngelesI just voted at my polling place in Los Angeles.
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The talk of the room is a district judge who had apparently gone from polling place to polling place, yelling at signature-gatherers.
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Rock the Vote also has a polling place locator feature.
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"Find your polling place and get there," he tells parishioners.
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You can find your polling place and its hours here.
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Voters who went to a polling place in Chandler, Ariz.
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In a matter of seconds, the site will not only let you know where your polling place is, but it will also tell you the hours your polling place will be open on Tuesday.
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I drive by my polling place and decide to vote early.
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The same polling place has brought out all of our characters.
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Google has a really useful tool for finding your polling place.
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A baseball bat carried at a polling place to intimidate voters.
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Don't forget to scope your local polling place for romantic prospects.
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And you can't even walk a block to your polling place?
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Broad bans on speech at the polling place fail that test.
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And it will allow Twitter citizens to find their polling place.
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Only one polling place has been impacted due to the hurricane.
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It doesn't mean standing menacingly in and around a polling place.
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Find your polling place by checking your local Board of Elections website.
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They'll even send you information about your polling place and voting guidelines.
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PHILADELPHIA — Mike Fitchett left his Philadelphia polling place at about 1 p.m.
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VIDEO: Donald Trump gets booed as he arrives at his polling place.
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On many reservations, polling place can be an hour or more away.
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Not every polling place with embedded modems uses them to transmit results.
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He said they could update their personal information at their polling place.
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I brought my mail-in ballot with me to the polling place.
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The fact that there was a big line -- or it took a long time to vote -- at one particular polling place simply doesn't prove anything other than it took a long time to vote at that particular polling place.
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VIDEO: Donald Trump gets booed as he arrives at his polling place. pic.twitter.
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JT posted a pic of himself back home Monday at the polling place.
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Police were reportedly called to escort the man out of the polling place.
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Paratransit customers will also receive free rides to and from their polling place.
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Despite the weather, their polling place was much busier than in previous elections.
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Whether voters must show valid identification at their polling place varies by state.
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We get the last polling place, er kid, called in and construction wins!
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One polling place for 21,000 eligible voters is already stretching resources pretty thin.
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But his name was not on the list at his usual polling place.
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Others were sent from one polling place to another, only to be rejected.
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Don't assume you should leave if a polling place is about to close.
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Seven counties in Georgia now have only one polling place, the report found.
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"They have a plan to continue voting at that polling place," Masterson said.
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"African American man outside Polling Place influencing people to vote Democrat," it continues.
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The Trumps were also booed on their way out of the polling place.
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Poll watchers generally have two functions: Ensuring that all votes cast in that polling place are counted correctly and reporting suspected irregularities to local officials, be it the poll workers at the polling place, the election board or some other body.
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The line this morning at my polling place on the upper west side. pic.twitter.
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For more information about the exact hours of your specific polling place, visit Vote.org.
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Voters cast their ballots at the Old South Church polling place in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Riders can't get discounts on rides back from their polling place, only to it.
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Check your registration status today, find your polling place, and get your ID ready.
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New Hampshire back in February, Bernie and Trump supporters mingled outside a polling place.
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Moore voted earlier Tuesday, traveling to and from his polling place in Gallant, Ala.
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Arizona: You can't take photos inside or within 75 feet of a polling place.
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LA recently changed voting laws and now anyone can vote at any polling place.
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Those states require residents to bring specific types of identification to their polling place.
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They had to visit their local polling place, Ridgeline Elementary School, on Election Day.
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This week, Abrams said she was almost blocked from voting at her polling place.
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To reiterate, the election is tomorrow, and you can find your polling place here.
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But if you're supposed to be at the polling place on Elm Street and you end up going to the polling place on Main Street, and you think, Ah, I'll just do the provisional ballot, you're probably gonna be throwing your vote away.
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I take a shower, get dressed, and walk across the street to my polling place.
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I walk over to my polling place, a church at the end of the block.
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They do this from the time the polling place opens until shortly before it closes.
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You can find your closest polling place and its opening hours for tomorrow at Vote.org.
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You walk into your local polling place, grab your ballot, and enter a voting booth.
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PA has only two voting options: absentee ballot or in-person at the polling place.
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The Lone Star State's restrictions on polling place speech are particularly stringent — and likely unconstitutional.
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When Karishma Desai, a graduate student, arrived at her polling place around 7:30 a.m.
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Republican voters line up outside a polling place Tuesday, March 1, 2016 in Anchorage, Alaska.
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Officials also recommend leaving the polling place before you post any selfies on social media.
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When construction required relocating the only polling place in the heavily Hispanic Dodge City, Kan.
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That meant that across the county, each polling place served more than 21,000 eligible voters.
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"I just enjoy the ritual of it, of going to my polling place," she said.
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"I just enjoy the ritual of it, of going to my polling place," she said.
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Exit polls are conducted as voters leave their polling place, thus the name "exit" polls.
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Senator Bernie Sanders marched to a polling place alongside a crowd of young Latinx voters.
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"Every polling place stands alone," said Scanlan, the deputy secretary of state in New Hampshire.
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For instance, Arizona state law prohibits any photography within 75 feet of a polling place.
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You can find your nearest polling place here, but as the site notes, you may find multiple addresses if you live in a Voter's Choice Act county, because you can vote at any of the new voting centers rather than a single neighborhood polling place.
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The day was not without ugly episodes, including reports of nasty remarks about immigrants at a polling place in the Kensington section of Brooklyn, and of election workers in a polling place in Jackson Heights asking for identification from voters when none was required.
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One voter testified to being physically pulled from a polling place by a task force member.
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As the couple arrived, the candidate was booed by a crowd waiting outside the polling place.
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Once we're within 100 feet of the polling place, we're not even allowed to talk politics.
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If you run into any problems at your polling place, we'd like to hear about it!
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But [intimidation] has no place in or around the polling place or in the voting booth.
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BARTIROMO: OK. KOBACH: Those things where if a person shows up at the wrong polling place.
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The documentation was for EVid, software that manages the voter checkin process at a polling place.
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If the lines at your polling place felt a little longer this year, you're not alone.
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Users should then request their ride using Uber's polling place locator, right in the Uber app.
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You can bring a gun to a polling place, to a casino and to a bar.
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When you vote, you are alone with your ballot, even if your polling place is packed.
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At Trump's polling place in Midtown Manhattan, two topless protestors ran through just after 299 a.m.
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Hundreds of voters stand in line for hours this morning at this SW Atlanta polling place.
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The polling place was previously located at a community center not located in the gated community.
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Another path forward is to create easier access for folks to get to their polling place.
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Sorenson put on high green galoshes and met Reid at his polling place at 7 a.m.
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Mr. Moore tied Sassy to a fence and made his way up to the polling place.
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The state may reasonably decide that the interior of the polling place should reflect that distinction.
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Simply accessing a physical polling place is also a difficult burden for many people with disabilities.
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But we can vote at the polling place and with our dollars at the movie theater.
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Moreover, they can place visible signage outside of a polling place indicating that it is accessible.
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Whether at a polling place or on the Supreme Court plaza, decorum is a worthy goal.
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Chicago election officials on Sunday said 168 Election Day polling places across the city (roughly 8%) would be changing as coronavirus cases in Illinois continue to rise and polling place precinct owners informed the Board that they no longer wanted a polling place at their location.
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That means you'll need to do any last-minute candidate research before you hit the polling place.
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Guess who wasn't on the rolls this morning at the polling place I've voted for four years?
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Trump requested that the ballots cast at that polling place be preserved and separated from other votes.
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Beverly Holt (Adina Porter) is outside of a polling place, reporting on the turnout for the night.
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Goode knew, though, that a polling place wouldn't net him nearly as many signatures as the DMV.
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When voting machines are not working properly, voters can submit emergency paper ballots at the polling place.
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Phoenix is here, at the small library that's serving as a polling place, to vote for herself.
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Suit up Want to make a statement on Election Day, but can't because of polling place rules?
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With that in mind, Foursquare has introduced a new map to help people find their polling place.
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And one last thing to remember: Even if the polling place is about to close, don't leave.
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Make it your mission to help them find their polling place, and make a plan for voting.
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That may be expensive in aggregate, but protecting democracy is probably worth the money per polling place.
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It is called an "exit" poll because voters are interviewed as they exit from a polling place.
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The rate of selection depends on the number of voters expected at the polling place that day.
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A Michigan polling place erupted in violence with voters squaring off and repeatedly hurling the n-word.
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Out of an abundance of caution, Rodgers said, he ordered more paper ballots to the polling place.
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There have been local disputes in counties across the state over polling-place consolidation and other issues.
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The majority of voters send in their ballots rather than appearing at a polling place in person.
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Eliminating the option lengthens polling-place queues and discourages voters from selecting individual candidates in downballot races.
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The GOP candidate and his wife arrived to their polling place in Gallant, Alabama, Tuesday on horseback.
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Paid time off to travel to a polling place, vote, and return to work must be allowed.
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Guilford, the state's third-largest county, opened just one polling place for the first week of early voting.
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You can look up your polling place here or call the Board of Elections at 866-VOTE-NYC.
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Moore expressed optimism Tuesday after a horseback ride to his polling place, an election day tradition of his.
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From there, the "Uber to Your Polling Place" will present additional contextual information like hours and ballot info.
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To find out where your polling place is to vote today and what's on your ballot, click here.
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In theory, voters who have difficulty traveling to a polling place can cast a vote through the mail.
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Wisconsin: Wisconsin generally allows carrying an unconcealed firearm in public, but polling place prohibitions depend on local rules.
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Your polling place may change from one election to the next, so check before you go to vote.
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The ACLU also provides a polling place guide as well as other state-specific resources worth a look.
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But you'll likely be forced to stray from your usuals when heading to your polling place on Tuesday.
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I'm always paranoid that I'll show up to my polling place and my name won't be the list.
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Election officials have moved the lone polling place outside city limits, citing construction at the previous polling site.
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Mansky: A Tea Party voter wore a Tea Party t-shirt to his polling place on Election Day.
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Videos posted by multiple news outlets showed the GOP candidate arriving at his polling place in Gallant, Ala.
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Oklahoma: Officials advise against taking pictures of marked ballots, but you can snap photos inside a polling place.
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A paper ballot shortage sparked a buildup as there were only three electronic machines at the polling place.
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After she complained on Twitter, Texas officials told her they would remove the sign in her polling place.
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One of the areas set to lose a polling place is 96% black, according to the Georgia ACLU.
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There are a few websites you can visit to check your voter registration and find your polling place.
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By late morning, she was forced to redirect people to a polling place more than a mile away.
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"If that was an issue in elections in that polling place, that would be political," Mr. Rogan said.
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How it works: Imagine a strategically placed traffic jam outside a polling place in a heavily Republican district.
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If you have trouble exiting your car or entering a polling place, curbside voting is available to you.
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For others, child-care and work demands proved too difficult to juggle with going to a polling place.
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You just can't take the selfie inside the polling place, and you can only photograph your own ballot.
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The next polling place we stop by is at the Green Street Community Center in Concord's Ward 5.
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Many have to deal with burdensome transportation — think traveling several hours — just to get to a polling place.
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If you are eligible to vote, and haven't yet done so, you can find your polling place here.
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At polling place in Bozeman, haven't found anyone yet who changed their mind bc of last night's events.
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Voters with disabilities, for example, have the right to accessible polling places and voting booths; to bring a service animal into the polling place; to seek assistance from polling place workers; and to bring someone with them to vote, as long as that person is not an employer or union representative.
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In the November 2016 and June 2018 elections, the Unitarian Universalist Church of Fresno served as a polling place.
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Melania Trump, who presumably voted for her husband, Donald Trump, sported a white dress at a Manhattan polling place.
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I wanted to be first at my polling place, but 99-year-old Minerva Turpin beat me to it.
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"We have a chance to do really, really well here tonight," Sanders said at a polling place in Manchester.
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If you live in New Hampshire, you can get more information on how to find your polling place here.
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"You don't get to make those determinations," Christie told reporters outside a polling place in Mendham Township, New Jersey.
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If someone tells you you're not eligible vote, you should first check if you're at the correct polling place.
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We know in Indiana they moved a polling place to the outskirts of town because nobody had a car.
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The Supreme Court in 1992 upheld a Tennessee law prohibiting campaign materials within 100 feet of a polling place.
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Voting rights groups already were upset that there was only one polling place for the city's 230,63 registered voters.
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In many states, taking a selfie or a photo at a polling place is considered illegal — regardless of intention.
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The way it works is pretty novel: Interviewers guess the age of voters as they leave the polling place.
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Dodge City officials recently announced the relocation of the polling place, saying that road construction blocked the old location.
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All voters in line by 8 pm will be able to vote and should not leave the polling place.
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But if your picture-taking disrupts voting or intimidates other voters, you can be removed from the polling place.
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It's wrong on the merits (the polling place wasn't kept open deliberately because of who was trying to vote).
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However, Google does not have your individual street address, so it can't direct you to your exact polling place.
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It was where a 2008 news story about two New Black Panthers patrolling a polling place gained mythic proportions.
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If your nearest polling place closes at 7:00 and is two minutes away, you stop at 6:58.
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In Phoenix, where the majority of residents are Hispanic, black, or another minority, each polling place served 108,000 residents.
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States remain free to decide that "some forms of advocacy should be excluded from the polling place," he wrote.
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She'd started sending them to a different polling place, only for that location to run out of provisional ballots.
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And it found out before anyone was actually turned away at a polling place largely because of volunteer sleuthing.
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Eventually, a supervisor for the Columbus County election board came to the polling place to sort out the mess.
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In Phoenix one polling place was foreclosed on the night before the vote, leaving ballots and voting machines locked inside.
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Were there any registered voters from those three states who didn't make it their local polling place on November 8?
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Beth Johnson said her polling place gave out hand-drawn Post-it Notes with "👁 voted" illustrated on the paper.
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I had those three hours, but because I had class I couldn't spend them in line at the polling place.
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Or that their polling place was shut down as a part of a systematic effort to stop them from voting.
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If you're not sure about your state's election date or the location of your polling place, you can visit Rockthevote.
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A Pennsylvania man faces charges of terroristic threats and disorderly conduct after allegedly threatening to "shoot up" a polling place.
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" But today, her moment to vote at Brightwood transformed an otherwise quiet polling place often seen on Election Day. "Grandma!
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It started off fine, reminding people when the election will be and telling them how to find their polling place.
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The polling place moved less than a mile away, to a medical complex with "more room and space," said Watson.
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But if the internet were down, people wouldn't be able to look up polling place locations or other voting information.
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We've said this before, but it's worth repeat it: Even if the polling place is near closing, do not leave.
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To the courts, apparel restrictions protect the orderly conduct of elections by creating a neutral zone within the polling place.
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Cruz was greeted outside his polling place by signs and posters comparing Trump to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party.
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Voters get such ballots when it&aposs not clear whether they are eligible to vote at a particular polling place.
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Volunteer to work at a polling place To start, you can get registered on the Election Assistance Commission's website. 16.
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If you were turned away, return to your polling place & exercise your right to vote by requesting a provisional ballot.
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When voters in Dodge City, Kansas, head to their polling place this year, they will have to leave the city.
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But the section of the law regarding polling place registration pertained only to counties with populations of 100,000 or more.
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His arrival at the polling place Tuesday morning, astride a galloping horse, could be seen as a pre-victory dance.
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A PEOPLE staffer was in line to vote when the women burst into the polling place, elementary school P.S. 59.
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At one polling place on Manhattan's Upper East Side, the line stretched over half a block by 5:63 a.m.
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The Bipartisan Policy Center and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has released a report on polling place lines in 2900.
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In North Carolina, a state website that helps voters find their polling place was briefly out of commission at midmorning.
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This week, someone lined a Trump sign with razor blades outside a polling place at Collin College in McKinney, Tex.
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A user can look up "Where is my polling place?" and be served the answer directly in the search results.
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"I like the guy," said Reginald Williams, a substitute teacher, as he left a polling place in Farmington Hills, Mich.
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Moore arrived to his polling place in Gallant, Alabama, around midday on Tuesday, riding astride a brown-and-white horse.
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Ms. Brown said she had called local election officials, who came to the polling place to set the judge straight.
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And voters were allowed for the first time to register at any polling place instead of at the county office.
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If you vote by mail but have not sent it in, simply take it to a polling place Tuesday morning.
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Georgia: Will provide basics like name, address, polling place and party preference for $250 fee, but not sensitive voter data.
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SOCIAL Q'S Is it O.K. to deny a neighbor a lift to the polling place based on her political views?
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If you're a registered Democrat, simply show up to your local polling place or one of the many voting centers.
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And don't forget: Every polling place has same-day voter registration, in case you missed the deadline to register online.
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Those who did go to a polling place could do so anywhere in the city — near home or near work.
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In the United States, the only related restriction is a ban on electioneering within 100 feet of a polling place.
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For the first time, they have actually opened a polling place at Arizona State University, home to thousands of students.
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You show up to your polling place, take a number like you do at the butcher, they call your ticket.
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A line stretched out the door of the polling place, in a local strip mall, by the time we arrived.
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If there are no ramps or curb ramps at the polling place, your municipality can easily install a portable ramp.
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Most states permit only voters, election officials, and credentialed poll watchers to remain in the polling place during voting hours.
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Neil Tillotson, a rubber magnate, purchased the Balsams in 1954 and realized the nearest polling place was about 50 miles away.
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Follow these and you'll walk into your polling place in just over a month confident that you've got it all covered.
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"They even want to try to rig the election at the polling place," Trump told a rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
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When you increase the distance from the population to a polling place, black voter turnout goes down by a certain percentage.
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I’d start walking to the polling place at midnight so I could be there when they open at 7AM.
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Inside the polling place, people in line to vote urged the 2016 candidate to jump the line and cast her ballot.
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She said that they weren't really filming in the direction of the polling place, but instead were filming towards the playground.
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He said he will be training every volunteer to comply with electioneering and polling place laws in each of the states.
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In a perfect world, your polling place is somewhere near where you live, but we don't live in a perfect world.
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I woke up two hours early so I could get to my polling place and make it onto the commuter rail.
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In 11 jurisdictions, polling place closures increased the travel times for majority nonwhite blocks more than they affected majority white areas.
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"Guess who wasn't on the rolls this morning at the polling place I've voted for four years?" tweeted writer Rebecca Traister.
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You'll also see fellow voters (and those who they're allowed to bring with them to the polling place, including minor children).
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And unlike official poll watchers, individuals outside the polling place have no legal right to challenge a voter's right to vote.
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For starters, each prohibits electioneering within a set distance from the polling place, but those distances are arbitrary and vary considerably.
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Unless you already voted early IRL or absentee, you should look up your polling place and head there on November 6.
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A day off is nice, but it's not going to get retirees any more motivated to go to their polling place.
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Also, Taylor H. put together a handy list of resources to find out more before heading to your local polling place.
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You may be used to going to your local polling place, pushing a button or pulling a lever and heading home.
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The machines also crashed at a library polling place, a malfunction thought to have been caused by interference from a smartphone.
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"The Somalis, who didn't speak English, were coached to vote for Rizzo by an interpreter at the polling place," Kobach insisted.
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Here's why: In 2018, the Supreme Court struck down a Minnesota law that banned all political apparel in the polling place.
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The only fraud that such laws might stop — misrepresentation at a polling place to cast an illegal ballot — is vanishingly rare.
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Holder Supreme Court decision, you are no longer required to submit polling place changes to the Department of Justice for preclearance.
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Apparently #BrowardCounty elections left behind a box labeled "Provisional Ballots" at a local elementary school that served as a polling place.
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The path also crossed Covenant House, an eight-story shelter for homeless youth that was a polling place for the night.
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Those voters are less likely to know where their polling place is, potentially making them susceptible to misinformation that disenfranchises them.
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Check your polling place and registration status here If you're not registered, you should check your state's registration deadline requirement ASAP.
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ACLU attorneys urged US District Judge Daniel Crabtree to consider ordering Ford County officials to open a second polling place downtown.
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When election workers arrived at a polling place in northern Chandler in Maricopa County — Arizona's most populous county — at 5 a.m.
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We look at five vulnerabilities, including compromised internet service that could make it difficult for voters to find their polling place.
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By the afternoon, voters had stepped in -- donating their own Wet Wipes and travel-sized hand sanitizer to the polling place.
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California also expanded same day voter registration, which is now available at every polling place, county election office or vote center.
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What better way to express that feeling than through images of people gritting their teeth and forging toward their polling place?
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They don't want to be forced to go to a polling place; they want to be able to vote from home.
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Consigning the traditional polling place to the same electoral scrap heap as hanging chads and vulnerable voting machines won't be easy.
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Fewer than 413 people drove through the snow to Fulton Town Hall, the town's singular polling place, to cast their ballots.
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And in states like Maryland and Texas, you can only selfie with a mail-in ballot, not at the polling place.
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As I expected, Jones was told multiple times that he couldn't film at a polling place, and he decided to leave.
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For instance, they report finding it difficult to vote at a polling place at much higher rates than voters without disabilities.
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In Oregon, anyone can do it; in California, only a relative is allowed to bring someone's ballot to a polling place.
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" — STEPHEN COLBERT "Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore rode on horseback today to his polling place to vote in the special election.
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No Russian intelligence official stood outside my polling place offering me a bribe or threatened me to vote against Hillary Clinton.
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Mr. Moore is a fundamentalist Christian who channels Reaganesque cowboy imagery and rides a horse named Sassy to his polling place.
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But it's equally clear that the polls are supposed to be closed after "all such voters" have been let inside: If at the hour of closing the polls there are any registered voters waiting to vote, the doors of the polling place must be closed after all such voters have been admitted to the polling place.
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The suit says Orth did not attempt to get CrossCity to change its signs or remove its status as a polling place.
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If you still don't know how you're getting to your polling place on Election Day, you have more than a few options.
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Most states prohibit campaigning within 100 feet of a polling place, and others ban wearing campaign buttons or t-shirts while voting.
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Independents, on the other hand, have a much easier time as they can temporarily register for either party at any polling place.
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Across the state, groups of two to three volunteers positioned themselves a legal distance from each polling place, pulling four-hour shifts.
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Sebastian Connor helps a voter cross the street to reach her polling place at Our Lady-Lourdes Catholic Church in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Federal Election Observers have the authority to enter and monitor any polling place with or without the permission of the election officials.
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Jones' own old polling place, a church within a five-minute walk, was relocated to a civic center across the railroad tracks.
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There are now 10 percent more people per polling place in the formerly-supervised areas than in the rest of the country.
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When you have to register by: Mail by October 19, in person by November fourth or Election Day at your polling place.
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We understand this information will be used to power future civic engagement products, like finding a polling place or previewing a ballot.
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When you move, you have to reregister to vote, find your new polling place or maybe learn to bring your driver's license.
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In Detroit, former slave and fellow activist Sojourner Truth was similarly turned away when she demanded a ballot at her polling place.
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CHARLIE HATHAWAY Tenafly, N.J. All of Mr. Andrews's suggestions about increasing access to the polling place are reasonable and should be enacted.
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"Thanks to a law passed in 2015, electronics are permitted in the polling place, but you can't use them," he tells CNN.
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At the polling place, the ballot—with the absurd, almost virtual candidate in first place—turned every voter into a co-conspirator.
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There are legitimate reasons to close a polling place, like saving money, while increasing access to voting by mail and early voting.
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"The increased volume is creating an aggregate number of jams to be had," he said at a polling place in the Bronx.
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Wisconsin is setting up six distribution centers across the state to get each polling place at least two liters of hand sanitizer.
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And in some cases there is another, more practical reason: People just can't find the time to get to a polling place.
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Most state election offices make it easy for voters to find their polling place online and learn when it opens and closes.
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He was left lying in the gutter of a pub that served as a polling place and died a few days later.
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The second is other voter suppression efforts, particularly polling place closures approved by Republican-controlled election boards in several predominantly black counties.
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Some fared even worse — one polling place in Brooklyn opened at least two hours late, according to the New York Daily News.
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Columnist and activist Shaun King reported that his Brooklyn polling place had just one functioning voting machine with 063 people in line.
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Other states are instituting electronic pollbooks, which Norden says can help make running a polling place faster as well as reduce errors.
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At a polling place on primary day, Sinema greeted voters, reacting with disciplined calm when asked repeatedly about the attacks from McSally.
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Common sense suggests that we are, in fact, able to vote without turning the polling place into a 19th century tavern brawl.
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Mindy McGillivray -- who claims Trump grabbed her ass at Mar-a-Lago in 2003 -- went to a Florida polling place this week.
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Of course, it's too late now for those early options, but still -- get your butt to your local polling place and VOTE!!!
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One such voter, Gladys Harris, 63, braved lung disease and a torn ligament to vote at her regular polling place last November.
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On November 6, 2018, Uber will offer U.S. riders the ability to quickly find their polling place and also book a free ride.
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Some states — like Oregon, Washington, and Colorado — have moved toward a mail-in ballot system, making the polling place issue less relevant there.
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A woman in leggings tucked into mud-covered riding boots told me she didn't know who the redhead at the polling place was.
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When you have to register by: Mail is due by October 25, but you can register at your polling place on election day.
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For example, in Florida, a poll watcher must be a registered voter in the county in which they are observing a polling place.
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A Minnesota voter had sued after being told to remove a "Please I.D. Me" button and Tea Party shirt at his polling place.
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Only in Hollywood ... cause even Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump had to walk inside a polling place, walk inside and cast their ballots.
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According to the Census Bureau, 28 percent of Americans who didn't vote said they skipped the polling place because they were too busy.
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The Democratic presidential nominee strolled into a polling place in her hometown of Chappaqua, NY ... with hubby Bill Clinton at her side. #ItsTime
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"He wishes he could vote like me, because he doesn't live in the district," Handel said as she walked into a polling place.
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In this case, if the match planned on voting for the Labour Party, he or she got directions to the nearest polling place.
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Polling-place intimidation is a non-issue if people can vote—and then change their votes, up to the deadline—at home, online.
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Greeting voters outside a polling place in Amman, the capital, she cited Jordan's historic resistance to the extremism more prevalent in its neighbors.
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" Attached was a video, apparently taken inside a polling place in Pittsburgh, where a sign on the front door read "Vote Straight Democrat.
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That means it's a done deal—if you go to your polling place and vote in person, that's double voting, which is illegal.
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Every city resident lives within five blocks of his or her polling place, said Kevin Kelly, the acting supervisor of elections in Philadelphia.
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But no matter what unexpected issues you encounter at your polling place, there are ways to make sure your vote gets in safely.
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Those who miss the online and mail-in deadline must register in person in the municipal clerk's office or at a polling place.
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These voters are taking advantage of policies in some states that allow voters to cast their ballot at a polling place in advance.
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On Thursday, a teacher complained that the county had left an empty box for provisional ballots at a polling place inside a school.
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The polling place in Cannon Ball, N.D., started the day with only 195 ballots for a voting-age population of more than 500.
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"There is certainly evidence that moving polling places, or the distance you live to your polling place, can affect voter turnout," Sides said.
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Her address changed, and under Georgia's strict voting laws, she had to re-register and figure out where her new polling place was.
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Near Malibu, Loyola Marymount University — which also has a polling place — was reported to have a power outage, according to multiple news outlets.
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While contingencies can vary by jurisdiction, some may have "mobile polling places" at the ready to transport to a polling place if necessary.
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There are also plenty of ways to vote if you cannot make it to your polling place, including postal ballots and overseas embassies.
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Democratic voters skew younger and are therefore less likely to have a stable address and polling place they return to year after year.
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In one town outside Phoenix, a polling place was foreclosed on the night before Election Day, with ballots and voting equipment locked inside.
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There's some reason to think it might not matter much: Many Philadelphia residents do live within walking distance of their nearest polling place.
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Today's special "Go Vote" air horn works especially well when added to a voting sign or the scene outside of your local polling place.
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After spending the morning doing last-minute campaigning across several key counties, the Republican went to his home polling place in Winterville to vote.
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Amanda Ruley, a 23-year-old Swift fan from Dallas, went straight to her local polling place after seeing her favorite performer's Instagram post.
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But Toomey explained his reasoning to a reporter with the Allentown Morning Call, who spoke to him outside his polling place in Zionsville, Pennsylvania.
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One article in the Boston University Law Review is titled The Polling Place Priming (PPP) Effect: Is Voting in Churches (or Anywhere Else) Unconstitutional?
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But obviously, if you're getting a cheap (or free) ride to your polling place, you might as well pull the lever while you're there.
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Mr. Bush, cornered on his way to a polling place, confessed that he was "tired," a comment that probably said more than he intended.
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On November 6th, Uber will add a new button in its app that will help people find and book rides to their polling place.
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In Alaska, prohibited activities must be at least 200 feet away from a polling place, while down in Alabama, that boundary is 30 feet.
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The Donald made his way into a polling place in Midtown Manhattan Tuesday where a throng of reporters were there to watch him vote.
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Outside a polling place in West Beirut, he and other volunteers in white T-shirts distributed lists of the candidates for Beirut, My City.
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In sixty minutes of oral argument, Facebook was compared to a park, a playground, an airport terminal, a polling place, and a town square.
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"I think it's already been rigged and the people out here's been just going through the motions," he said, nodding toward his polling place.
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After lampooning his assertion of widespread voter fraud — and questioning whether he had ever visited a polling place — the president struck a serious note.
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Mr. Ryan said the polling site coordinator failed to show up at Ms. Desai's polling place, the Atlantic Terminal Senior Citizens Center in Brooklyn.
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"This isn't about whether he's going to do a better job or not," said Ken Magno, 69, leaving his polling place in Everett, Mass.
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It violates voting laws in many states to take a photo with your completed ballot, or even inside the polling place in some locations.
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"Don't rely on their social media feeds to understand where a polling place may have changed, because of some of the damage," Wolf said.
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In Kansas, officials moved the only polling place in Dodge City, which has a Latino majority, outside city limits and far from public transportation.
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A few years back, borough council candidates began discussing moving the polling place from Ms. Wilson's building, home to many seniors, to another location.
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They also had to offer at least one accessible voting machine at each polling place so that disabled voters could cast ballots without assistance.
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Should early voters be able to give their sealed ballots to someone else to drop in the mail or deliver to a polling place?
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The kits can be available should an adult overdose at a high school football game, a school play or a school-based polling place.
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Both Illinois and Florida faced involuntary polling place shutdowns and delays as hundreds of poll workers refused to show up to run the elections.
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"Even if Tea Party apparel is not election-related, it is not unreasonable to prohibit it in a polling place," Judge Duane Benton wrote.
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For example, sometimes that "accessible" voting machine is in the back of a polling place and requires navigating through rows of people to get there.
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Also joining the family at their polling place in Midtown Manhattan was Arabella's dad Jared, making the outing a special moment for the Trump family.
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Maybe they didn't know where to vote or how to get there, or maybe they forgot about it until the polling place was already closed.
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Even if you register and go to the correct polling place on Election Day, there's a chance your name may not be on the list.
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Pennsylvania: The judge of elections had a medical emergency and was unable to open one polling place in Pittsburgh, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
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Uber and Lyft, for their part, are taking steps to remove a little bit of pain from locating and getting to the proper polling place.
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Users can then plug in the promo and then request a ride using the polling place locator, also built into the app for the election.
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The shooting happened near a polling place, triggering a lockdown at the Memorial Park North Recreation Center, where voters had come to cast their ballots.
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Tim Kaine displayed a time-honored trait for a vice president -- preparedness -- showing up at his Richmond, Virginia, polling place 15 minutes early on Tuesday.
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The average travel time for mostly white neighborhoods was 21 seconds longer after polling place closures, while in minority neighborhoods it increased by 53 seconds.
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Macon-Bibb County now has 31 polling places for nearly 100,000 registered voters, about 2200 percent more voters per polling place than the national average.
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If you try to vote at a polling place that isn't the one you are assigned, you might have to fill out a provisional ballot.
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Francesc Accensi i Alemany, a scientist and father of three who spent the weekend helping to occupy a school being used as a polling place.
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A crowd of onlookers made its displeasure known as the Republican nominee showed up at his Manhattan polling place Tuesday: Donald Trump arrives to vote.
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Simply enter your address and the site will reveal your designated polling place, the hours during which you can vote, and even offer you directions.
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If the context remains stable and you follow the same route to vote at the same polling place, then you can repeat past actions automatically.
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Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation, said race was being unfairly inserted into the debate on polling place changes.
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In that spirit, Uber and Google have teamed up on a feature that lets voters find their polling place and then request a ride there.
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And in Exeter, N.H., voters arrived early at their polling place to avoid lines — only to find that scores of others had the same idea.
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"Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore rode on horseback today to his polling place to vote in the special election," Meyers said Tuesday on his show.
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Rather, they "must be able to articulate some sensible basis for distinguishing what may come in and what may stay out" of the polling place.
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They go around and make sure the polling place is well-staffed, because the actual poll officials tend not to be handed tons of resources.
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Pritzker told reporters Monday that every polling place would have hand sanitizer and that voting machines would be wiped down after every vote that's cast.
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New York City is home to 8.6 million people, all of whom have to show up to a polling place in person between 6 a.m.
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This is one of the reasons why turnout is so high for older people: they often literally get a polling place for where they live.
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Toya H., the coordinator at Lindner's polling place in Lincoln Park, confirmed she had to turn away voters Tuesday morning because she had no equipment.
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On this past Election Day in Edgewater, N.J., Roslyn Wilson, 97, took the elevator from her 12th floor apartment to the polling place right downstairs.
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But even as Ms. Kim entered her polling place in Cambridge, she acknowledged that she wasn't sure that Mr. Bloomberg was the right choice, either.
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And even if the disease is under control, many voters may be cautious about stepping out to a polling place where many people will gather.
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That raises reason to be very suspicious of the polling place closures, which mean you have a lot more voters assigned to one voting location.
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Joe Lenski, president of Edison Research, tells CNN that the goal is to get around 100-125 completed interviews with voters at each polling place.
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"We believe that the Election Day reminder is a positive feature which reminds people to vote and helps them find their polling place," Facebook added.
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Pereira, who emerged from his polling place in Bissau smiling broadly and posed for photographs with poll workers, said the vote was "free and transparent".
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Jess Bidgood, a national correspondent for The Times was on the ground in Alabama, talking to female voters outside a polling place in Gadsden, Ala.
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Chief Justice John Roberts, a conservative, asked questions that signaled his sympathy for maintaining decorum in the polling place and avoiding psychological pressure on voters.
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And since most polling places are on or near public property, it is of course possible — if not likely — that there will be vocal supporters of different candidates, members of the media, exit pollsters, and others outside the polling place, although state law bans on "electioneering" usually require some minimum distance between the polling place and these personnel — anywhere from 30 to 250 feet.
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A hacker could conceivably depress voter turnout by uploading false stories about polling place changes or extended hours for polls that plan to close on time.
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The crew filming an episode of Booty Queens outside a polling place in Los AngelesI guess look for me on an upcoming episode of Booty Queens?
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Our judicial system should be flexible enough to allow voters, who otherwise legitimately would make it to the polling place on time, to cast their ballots.
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Polling place data can be inaccurate, in part because each county is responsible for maintaining its own location data and forwarding it to the state authority.
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And for about a quarter of people in these neighborhoods without a car, the average travel time to the nearest polling place was over an hour.
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Under the hashtag #MyMuslimVote, they shared polling place selfies and images of "I Voted" stickers, accompanied with statements of hopes for what their votes would accomplish.
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But if poll watchers have concerns, they must always raise those concerns with the poll workers in the polling place, and not with the voters directly.
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Every polling place is going to have the actual poll workers, who are, depending upon the jurisdiction, some combination of state employees, temporary contractors or volunteers.
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More than half the state's votes are cast by absentee ballot, since no excuses are necessary to avoid going to a polling place on Election Day.
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Two topless, chanting women were arrested Tuesday morning for causing a disturbance at the New York City polling place where Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump votes.
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If you, too, are considering taking any sort of photo (for the 'gram!), it's best to be safe and wait until you leave your polling place.
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They were almost immediately arrested and reportedly booked for electioneering -- a misdemeanor prohibiting the display of badges and signs supporting a candidate at a polling place.
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It got so bad at Aaron's polling place that the N–Z dedicated staffer was helping sort out the A–Ms, but things were still slow.
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The ride-hailing company said users would be able to look up the location of their polling place inside the application and request a ride there.
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The promotion will make it slightly cheaper to reach your local polling place if you've got no other way of getting there besides hailing a car.
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Uber will offer a one-time $10 discount to users who are heading to their polling place on Election Day next month, the company announced Wednesday.
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The majority on that panel upheld the political apparel ban as a reasonable safeguard against subjecting voters to polling-place intimidation or lobbying by campaign activists.
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In addition, Google is today beginning to display your polling place location in the search results, when you search for "where to vote," or something similar.
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You have to go to your polling place in person or, if you live abroad or outside of your home state, mail in your absentee ballot.
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Arguing before the Supreme Court, the government's lawyer stated there even would be times in which voters couldn't wear Minnesota Vikings jerseys into the polling place.
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Citing long lines at a particular polling place as proof of some sort of conspiracy is a classic example of mistaking anecdotal evidence as statistically significant.
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That includes fairs, flash mobs spurring people to vote and possible prizes like a new iPhone for the most creative selfie posted from a polling place.
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As Babr approached his polling place on foot, he heard a brass band and the joyous beats of the dhol, a barrel-shaped, double-sided drum.
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Actually, that makes sense: if there's no open polling place within a reasonable distance, it hardly matters whether or not a voter is surrounded by water.
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Even still, it took more than five years to shift to the current system where nearly 83 percent of votes are cast outside a polling place.
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"If you lack the physical ability to walk into the polling place, workers will bring a paper ballot and envelope to the car," Dr. Hasen said.
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A recent poll found that African-American and Latino voters were roughly three times as likely as white voters to report trouble finding their polling place.
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You can also take that blank ballot to a physical polling place and exchange it for a ballot with presidential candidates from one of those parties.
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They are disproportionately more likely to move, and to not know where their polling place is, and to not be sure if they're registered to vote.
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Independents, estimated at about 40 percent of the electorate, can choose to participate in either party's primary when they arrive at their polling place on Tuesday.
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There was one polling place that had a discrepancy of a single vote - a possible typo - and one with an unusually large number of rejected votes.
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In Las Vegas last weekend, voters were still waiting outside a polling place in a Mexican grocery store two hours after it was set to close.
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Some Florida students tried to vote today but they hit a brick wall, because the folks at the polling place would not recognize their dorm address.
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Lopez has limited physical mobility in her arms and as a result she cannot be wearing a coat to the polling place if she wishes to vote.
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If there is a long line at your polling place, and it gets late, stay in line because legally you must be allowed to cast your ballot.
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In 2014, when he was a state representative, Artiles was secretly recorded at a polling place using an anti-Muslim slur, as reported by the Miami Herald.
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Vote.org has a useful feature that helps you find your polling place if you type in your address (make sure it's exact and include the zip code).
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"If he recommends him, there's gotta be a reason," Jerry, who cast a vote for Donovan Tuesday afternoon at a Staten Island polling place, told BuzzFeed News.
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North of Austin, Southwestern University collected ballots from more than half of its 1,500 students last November in a one-day visit by a mobile polling place.
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Voters line up to vote during the Super Tuesday primary voting at a polling place located in at Fire Station #10 in Arlington, Virginia, March 1, 2016.
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This type of picture can get you in trouble in some states, so make sure to research whether you can snap a photo at your polling place.
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Effective immediately and until the voting is done, they are barred from hindering or delaying a prospective voter from reaching the polling place and casting a ballot.
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A polling place in the Bronx gets ready for Tuesday (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)Taking a ballot selfie is illegal in at least 20 states.
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Indiana: GOTV FailIn Indiana, a get out the vote effort by the Indiana Democratic Party sent 2,000 voters incorrect information about the location of their polling place.
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Given travel time for farmers to reach their nearest polling place, fixing Election Day to a Tuesday was thus designed to minimize the economic impact of voting.
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Planning for contingencies is always advisable, but sometimes the unanticipated -- such as machines not working, an emergency closing of a polling place or a weather event -- occurs.
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Kaine told CNN's "New Day" that he "got to my polling place about a quarter until 6," and that "there was already a line" when he arrived.
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These ballots take the longest to count because they are cast only when a voter doesn't have proper ID or ends up at the wrong polling place.
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"Later this month, I'm going to head back to Chicago, walk into my local polling place, and cast an early vote for the next president," Obama wrote.
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Asked whether he would vote for him, Jeff Flake, a Republican senator, said that he would instead "run to the polling place to vote for the Democrat".
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The Los Angeles Times, citing a law enforcement source, said one of the victims hit by gunfire was on the way to a polling place to vote.
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On Election Day in 2016, Mr. Trump arrived at his polling place to jeers and laughter, caught on a video recording by someone who posted it online.
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In a few states, officials have recognized that taking time off from the job, going to a polling place and suffering a sometimes long wait discourage voting.
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Ride-sharing companies like Lyft and Uber have in the past partnered with municipalities to assist voters in getting to the polls and locating their polling place.
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Robinson told CNN his polling place was crowded and had to wait about 15 minutes, which was longer than he waited in 2016 for the presidential election.
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The ACLU said Thursday that it was "disappointed" in the judge's decision, and rebuked County Clerk Debbie Cox for the late decision to move the polling place.
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Election day was mostly peaceful despite several violent incidents, including an altercation at a polling place in eastern Congo in which at least three people were killed.
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The group laid out a three-step process if things start to feel off while casting a ballot or even just trying to enter a polling place.
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A targeted ad unit rolled out recently by the search giant allows users to enter their address so they can see the location of their polling place.
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So far, there haven't been reports of significant polling-place delays, but he called on his supporters to stay the course until they are able to vote.
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That translated to a single polling place for every 108,000 residents in Phoenix, a majority-minority city that had exceptional turnout in Tuesday's Democratic and Republican primaries.
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Whom you might expect to see Poll workers and other residents casting ballots are not the only people voters can expect to see at their polling place.
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By Tuesday afternoon, the line outside of the polling place stretched for blocks, as poll workers enforced a one-in, one-out policy to encourage distancing inside.
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The report explains this could have a disproportionate effect on minority voters: Polling place closures are a particularly common and pernicious tactic for disenfranchising voters of color.
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Once an election is conducted, there is no judicial remedy for the loss of votes that were never cast because a voter's usual polling place has disappeared.
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Voters can hop over to the website, submit a link from Twitter or Instagram that verifies the insanity and location of a polling place, and hit send.
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In Kansas, the one polling place in majority-Hispanic Dodge City, was moved outside the town limits, leading to a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union.
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In addition to voter ID laws, these "recent changes to voting laws" include polling place closings, new hurdles to voter registration, and cutbacks in early voting days.
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Each machine was more expensive, but you needed fewer per polling place, because voters could fill out the ballots in simple booths and then quickly scan them.
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Most states have the kind of infrastructure that makes sense if you are expecting most voters to show up to a polling place and vote in person.
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In Pennsylvania, for instance, uniformed law enforcement can't come within 100 feet of a polling place unless called by an election judge or county Board of Elections.
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Enabling more people to vote during the day could also ease polling place congestion, which is often at its worst in the morning and after work hours.
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Buckley said his father put on his boots and — despite his own son's allegiance to Mondale — trudged to the polling place to cast a vote for Hart.
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That was in Florida, where a group of Trump supporters with signs and bullhorns shouted at voters and got within 100 feet of the polling place itself.
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Merrimack, the largest polling place in the state, in particular is seeing huge delays and will allow voters who are still in very lengthy lines to vote.
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These five states aren't the only ones facing pot at the polling place: Voters in Florida, Arkansas, Montana and North Dakota will decide whether to legalize medical marijuana.
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I always do my voting research super last minute since I live a block and a half away from my polling place, and there is never a line.
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Fortunately, we do live in a world with ride-sharing apps like Uber and Lyft, both of which will offer in-app tools to find your polling place.
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People who saw this message were 0.3 percent more likely to seek information about their local polling place than those who just saw an informational message about voting.
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But there's a distinction between taking names and taking pictures; most states prohibit poll watchers from taking any pictures or making any audio recordings within the polling place.
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Snap Inc, Facebook Inc and other firms will remind users to vote and link to a nonprofit guide for identifying the correct polling place, ballot items and hours.
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I'm pretty sure eight out of 10 people that I see walking into the Fountain Hills Community Center polling place remember watching Lawrence Welk on TV before syndication.
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Eligible voters can use Same Day Registration to correct outdated voter registration records at the polling place, saving themselves an extra step and still allowing them to participate.
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We heard stories from voters who took time off work to vote, only to be turned away at their assigned polling precinct and every polling place they visited.
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" But at the polling place on Tuesday, none of that vitriol was evident, at least from Clinton, who said cheerily to Frank Fiorina, "Give my best to Carly.
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LINCOLN PARK, Ga. (Reuters) - Louis Brooks, 87, has walked to cast a vote at his neighborhood polling place in Georgia's predominantly black Lincoln Park neighborhood for five decades.
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Power outages in Tennessee A polling place at Cedar Bluff Middle School in Knoxville, Tennessee, did not have power Tuesday morning and the site's backup generator also failed.
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The majority-Hispanic city had faced accusations of voter suppression after relocating the only polling place to outside of the city limits, citing construction at the old location.
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The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a conservative group's challenge to a Minnesota law that bans voters from wearing any political apparel inside a polling place.
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In some states, like Pennsylvania, if you change your address within 30 days before an election you can vote at the polling place associated with your old address.
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Strict registration laws, bogus voter-fraud prosecutions, aggressive purges of the rolls, polling place closures and the like echo the poll taxes and literacy tests of earlier generations.
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However, if you've filled out your ballot and have not turned it in, you can take it to a polling place and exchange it for a new one.
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Here are some scenes from the campaign trail on Tuesday: Sanders thanked a handful of supporters at McDonough Elementary School in Manchester, which was hosting a polling place.
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Certainly, there's a big difference between a voting machine room at a hacker conference where pwning the machines is encouraged, and an actual polling place in an election.
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"A political badge, political button or other political insignia may not be worn at or about a polling place on primary or election day," its key provision says.
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West Virginia teachers walked their nine-day protest to the polling place yesterday, where almost 22018 percent of teachers' union–endorsed candidates went on to win their primaries.
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West Virginia teachers walked their nine-day protest to the polling place yesterday, where almost 23 percent of teachers' union–endorsed candidates went on to win their primaries.
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Additionally, the Help America Vote Act of 2002 required that each polling place have at least one voting system that is accessible by people with disabilities in federal elections.
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According to all of them, they were able to make it to a polling place, get some free coffee and place their vote in a different state's primary election.
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The study reports that 35 percent of non-college-educated voters and 19 percent of college-educated voters said they had no way to get to their polling place.
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"I was lucky this time, and thought it'd be fun to spread some of those good sticker feelings around." did your polling place neglect to give you a sticker?
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There also are no monitors being sent to Macon-Bibb County, where officials in 2016 tried to move a polling place in a black neighborhood to a sheriff's office.
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Uber's teamed up with Google to offer up an in-app "Find Your Polling Place" feature that will perform the aforementioned task when a user enters in their address.
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An election law Illinois passed in 2015 included the stipulation that if a polling place offers "I Voted" stickers to some voters, it has to offer them to everyone.
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VICE News conducted a granular analysis of 18 counties, examining the travel times between each Census block group and the nearest polling place, correcting for differences in car ownership.
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Simply enter your home address in the interactive map above, and it will let you know the exact location of your polling place and eateries of all sorts nearby.
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Now, when you enter queries like "where is my polling place" or "who's on my ballot," Google will surface relevant results within the search in both Spanish and English.
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It doesn't have to be this way, especially when it comes to early voting, when you can cast your ballot at just about any polling place in your county.
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So if you go to the wrong polling place and ask to vote a provisional ballot, in many places, you'll be allowed to write it, but it won't count.
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Donald Trump missed out on a fine display of the First Amendment when 2 topless women burst into his polling place with a juicy message scrawled on their bods.
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Miley Cyrus got the VIP treatment on election day -- literally driving into a polling place and casting her ballot while Liam Hemsworth never let go of the steering wheel.
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"I will vote for Martin Fayulu," said Mama Wivine, 40 and unemployed, as she waited for the machine to arrive at her polling place in Kinshasa's Camp Luka neighborhood.
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In Westerville, Ohio, voting machines were down for the morning but eventually got back online: At my polling place this morning, the machine that collects the ballots was broken.
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"In addition, those taking ballot selfies inside a polling place may inadvertently capture the ballots of other voters who did not wish to have their ballots publicized," he added.
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Uber announced earlier this month that it would implement an in-app "Get to the Polls" feature on Election Day that shows users where their polling place is located.
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The federal lawsuit comes as the city faces increasing scrutiny after moving its only polling place outside city limits and more than a mile from the nearest bus stop.
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This should go without saying, but there is no reason to give Donald Trump your cell phone number and email address if you're simply looking for your polling place.
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On Election Day most men in a community gathered around the ballot box, turning the polling place into an awkward combination of a town hall and a fraternity gantlet.
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"I'm excited," she said as she rode back across the city during the mid-morning lull in business, so she could cast a ballot at her neighborhood polling place.
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Some voters don't realize that registration and polling-place ID requirements are two different things, so that even if they are registered, they still may be prevented from voting.
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And in Pittsburgh, an election judge summoned police officers to eject AmyJo Brown from a polling place after she refused the judge's demand to produce an ID before voting.
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"I just feel like we need more Democrats in office to get our government back under control," Melody Ross, 67, said on Tuesday outside her polling place in Topeka.
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Right now, when people can conduct their entire lives on their phone, they wonder why they have to go to a 19th century polling place to cast a ballot.
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"I'm surprised by the low turnout," said Loreima Henríquez, a National Electoral Council employee, who was overseeing a polling place in Dos Caminos, a middle-class area of Caracas.
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On the corner next to the polling place, a volunteer in a prayer shawl handed out sample ballots written in Yiddish that directed people to vote for Mr. Felder.
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The touchscreen-based system was supposed to increase accessibility and make voting more convenient, since polling place workers could confirm voter registration by looking it up on an iPad.
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Primary elections are simple: voters show up to their polling place, whether it is a school, library, or elsewhere, and check the box for the candidate of their choice.
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Outside a polling place in Auburn, voters on Tuesday repeatedly described their disgust with Republican officials in Washington and made plain that Mr. Trump's endorsement had not swayed them.
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One research paper found that 2844 percent of voters with disabilities polled in a nationally representative survey said it was difficult to vote at a polling place in 2888.
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RELATED: Christie confronted at his New Jersey polling place Though he suspended his campaign after that loss, he reappeared on the trail later in 2016 to campaign for Trump.
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The mayor, Quinton Lucas, said on Twitter that he had been told he "wasn't in the system" at a polling place he had used for more than a decade.
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On election day — Tuesday, November 8 — Moovit will get you from wherever you are to your correct polling place via public transit, bike sharing services or Uber, whichever works best.
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Others testified that task force members had confronted them outside the polling place and asked them to show voter registration cards — and then turned them away when they didn't comply.
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The ad hoc voter protection group asked volunteers to take primary day off from work, participate in a training and remain stationed at a polling place for the full day.
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Zipcar will also be opening up 7,000 of its cars for free to members on election night between 6 and 10PM to encourage subscribers to carpool to their polling place.
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The difference between early voting and all-mail voting is that, in the former, the voter still has to physically present themselves at a polling place to cast their ballot.
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The law read that anyone voting was forbidden "from using the device for telephone conversations, recording, or taking photographs or videos while inside the polling place," as US Weekly reports.
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Voters must give a reason to get an absentee ballot and the state asks voters who can actually cast a ballot on Election Day at their polling place do so.
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The New York Times has a modern-day Oregon Trail parody for you to play that explores the "heroic" journey Americans will make on November 8th to their polling place.
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When she couldn't find her name on the voting rolls at her polling place in 2016, she said that an election worker told her to cast a provisional ballot instead.
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The Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder said that the names of 118,522 voters were omitted from the roster that poll workers use to check in voters at their polling place.
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President Trump's choice to lead the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Wednesday that she pressed her polling place on voting machine security when she voted in Virginia this week.
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The ruling could impact at least nine other states with similar laws and will send a message that states can't go too far in prohibiting speech at the polling place.
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Khadija Farah told CNN that 20 minutes after she arrived at her polling place at T.A. Howard Middle School in Tarrant County, the line to vote stretched out the door.
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The president reportedly told listeners that Langer, 59, was informed he could not vote on Election Day while waiting in line at a polling place near his home in Florida.
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Cover image: In this Tuesday, June 5, 2018 file photo, voters mark ballots at a polling place in the library at the Robert F. Kennedy Elementary School in Los Angeles.
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ANALYSIS: Here are the most obscenely gerrymandered congressional districts in America T-shirts and retaliatory speech The court will also hear a case about political apparel at the polling place.
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"Even if Tea Party apparel is not election-related, it is not unreasonable to prohibit it in a polling place," Judge Duane Benton wrote for a unanimous three-judge panel.
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In suburban Chicago, election judge Kim Inman arrived at her polling place Tuesday to find that the hand sanitizer and disinfecting wipes promised by Cook County officials had not arrived.
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At one polling place in Hialeah, Florida (in Miami-Dade County), just five -- FIVE -- voters had cast ballots in the first 90 minutes of voting, according to CNN's Leyla Santiago.
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Contrast that to the risks inherent in polling place elections that increasingly rely on direct-recording electronic (DRE) voting systems and proprietary software systems that both record and tally votes.
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Interviewers approach a certain number of voters who are leaving the polling place — the exact fraction surveyed is secret — and ask them to fill out the written exit poll survey.
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"I wasn't sure who to vote for, even though I'm a Republican," said Brandy McDonald, 40, a hairstylist who is white, as she left a church polling place in Hoover.
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Florida Democratic Party Executive Director Juan Peñalosa said the party had identified more than 126,000 voters whose precincts may not know that their polling place has been closed or relocated.
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If you can't make it out to a polling place prior to Election Day, it's important to still call your local election official and ask them to address these concerns.
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The average voter spent 19 minutes at a polling place in 2016, the study found, while some 21625 percent of voters spent more than half an hour waiting to vote.
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Such a reform would benefit almost everyone, but particularly populations that have difficulty getting to a polling place on a weekday (working mothers, the ill or elderly, low-income, etc.).
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Over the past several years, Republican legislators passed several measures that make voting more difficult — voter ID, early voting cuts, polling place closures, and so on — especially for black voters.
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In 2005, he and other researchers held voting "festivals" in the small town of Hooksett, New Hampshire, and in New Haven, Connecticut, outside of a polling place on election day.
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In doing so, Orth "violated Plaintiff's right to free speech," according to the lawsuit, which calls for the Unitarian Universalist Church of Fresno to be reinstated as a polling place. Rev.
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The women were removed from P.S. 59 at 233 E. 56th Street, the polling place where Donald Trump is expected to cast his vote later in the day, following their protests.
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Unenrolled voters who wish to remain independent must sign an additional card before leaving their polling place to avoid becoming a member of the party whose primary ballot they just pulled.
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Page Gardner, founder and president of the Voter Participation Center, says this is partially because millennials aren't as settled, which makes it more difficult to register and find a polling place.
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Google has been working throughout this election to make voting information more accessible, and today that continues with an integration in Google Maps that will help users find their polling place.
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Nicholas Stephanopoulos, a professor of election and government law at the University of Chicago, said that the polling place closures we analyzed could have a "clear disparate impact" on minority voters.
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Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania generally allows the carrying of unconcealed firearms in public and there are no laws that specifically prevent a person from carrying or possessing a firearm at a polling place.
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Moreover, if the polling place is located in an otherwise prohibited place, such as an elementary school or courthouse, then firearms are prohibited, according to Pennsylvania State Department spokeswoman Wanda Murren.
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Voter registration databases will mostly be printed out by Election Day, but counties that allow voting in more than one polling place and use electronic voter registration information could be affected.
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In fact, three of the top five trending search topics in the U.S. on Tuesday related to the midterms: Polling place (+350 percent), voting (+300 percent) and election day (+300 percent).
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Renee Ellmers went out with a bang Tuesday when she mocked the weight of a party activist who didn't support her re-election campaign during a stop at a polling place.
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Republican Senator Jeff Flake said he'd "run to the polling place" to vote for a Democrat over Moore, and that he'd vote to expel Moore from the Senate if he won.
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Around 8 AM, two topless female protestors disrupted the Midtown polling place, pulling off their shirts once they got inside to reveal bodies painted with anti-Trump slogans, according to Gothamist.
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If you actually want to find your polling place, go to this link, which will direct you to government information websites that do not require you to provide any contact information.
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Washington DC (CNN Business)Halfway through Election Day, a video purporting to show votes being switched by a machine at a polling place in Ohio began to go viral on Twitter.
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"I was very disappointed that he did not disavow what appears to be support from David Duke and from the Ku Klux Klan," Clinton told reporters at a Minnesota polling place.
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One of the few verified instances of recent voter fraud at a Wisconsin polling place — the only kind of fraud that a photo ID might prevent — padded a Republican governor's tally.
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"If you want to restrict voter turnout in minority and disadvantaged communities, a good way is to move a polling place somewhere they can't get to," she said at the time.
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In Macon-Bibb County, Ga., in February, the elections board moved a polling place in a predominantly black neighborhood from a gymnasium that was being renovated to the county sheriff's office.
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Arkansas: There's no law against taking selfies, says the Secretary of State's Office, as long as you're not being disruptive in the polling place or taking pictures of other people's ballots.
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When voters in Los Angeles look up their polling place through the county's website, they will see an option to summon one of the ride-sharing services to whisk them away.
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Here's a non-exhaustive list of discounts and free rides you can take advantage of if you need a ride to your local polling place: This article originally appeared on Recode.net.
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Workers at one polling place in Naples, Florida — a Republican bastion in the southwest corner of the peninsula — said that turnout Tuesday was lower than normal, but steadier than they expected.
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Estrada's original polling place was in an area hit hard by the tornado, so it took some researching before she found the location where officials consolidated several polling stations, including hers.
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Primaries are what you probably think of when you think of an election: Voters show up at their polling place anytime within a certain window, cast their vote privately and leave.
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Cover: Shay Samuel displays her "I Voted" sticker after voting at a polling place inside the gymnasium at the Barack Obama Prep Academy on November 6, 2018 in Los Angeles, California.
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If you have to vote on Election Day, you'll have to make sure you're going to the right polling place, and you'll have to make sure you go there when it's open.
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In Trump's telling, Langer had been turned away at a Florida polling place on Election Day, even as other voters on line -- including many of Latin American descent -- filled out provisional ballots.
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Polls have opened in Mexico&aposs presidential and local elections, and front-running candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is among the first to line up at his polling place in Mexico City.
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She has only shared a few pictures since leaving rehab, including one of herself voting at a polling place on Election Day and a "sweaty" selfie after an intense martial arts session.
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She was, for example, so excited that she was able to use all of her energy and go to her polling place in this next election, talking about the importance of voting.
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"You then have to take your phone to an official polling place or other designated location — it could be a public library," to verify what Voatz recorded as your choice, Sawhney said.
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Maybe it just helps employers and employees; just people who can't make it a certain day because, who knows, maybe an emergency comes up and they can't get to their polling place.
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When you have to register by: The preregistration deadline is October 29, but you can also register to vote on Election Day at your polling place with proof of ID and residence.
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Trump reportedly told congressional leaders a story Monday night about the German athlete being turned away from a polling place on Election Day, using the tale as evidence of widespread voter fraud.
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Google has been highly involved with connecting U.S. voters to timely information throughout this election cycle, by offering everything from voter registration assistance to polling place information in its search result pages.
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We demand that he release the election results by bureau and polling place so that independent observers can verify a recount of all the votes and confirm the will of our people.
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That's the fundamental question at stake in a court case testing a Minnesota state law that polices what you are allowed wear in a polling place when exercising your right to vote.
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Washington (CNN)The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a Minnesota law that banned political apparel at a polling place, holding that it violates the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment.
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On Election Day, three months after moving there from Virginia, he presented an unexpired Virginia driver's license and a voter registration card at his polling place, and was told neither was acceptable.
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So, if you ever feel like getting to your local polling place and waiting in lines before work is a challenge, just know this: It's a far more complicated process from space.
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"If this country gets a Republican, we are in big trouble, especially with Trump," Flor Giraldo, 59, an unemployed emergency room technician, said Tuesday outside of a polling place in Chelsea, Mass.
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Then when election day arrives, users will be able to add an "I Voted" sticker to their photos and videos that link to voting info like which polling place to go to.
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Touching photos captured Latino voter, and newly sworn in U.S. citizen Fabio Alvarado, 91, from El Salvador as he arrived to his polling place on Tuesday, proudly displaying his new citizenship certificate.
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And at the Washington Examiner, conservative writer Philip Wegmann wrote: Brenda Snipes shouldn't be allowed within 100 miles of a polling place, but the people of Broward keep electing her election supervisor.
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While voters can fix their status at their polling place and still vote using a regular ballot, Robinson worried that people wouldn't know they had the option or how to do it.
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Keisling summarizes the security case: Mail-based voting systems today are far less risky than most polling place elections, precisely because they distribute ballots (and electoral risk) in such a decentralized way.
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The polling place on the campus had stayed open three extra hours Tuesday evening after reports emerged that numerous students who had registered to vote were not listed in the poll books.
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Websites like Vote411 and VoteSmart can provide information on candidates' positions, while your state election site can help you locate your polling place (which may have changed, even if you haven't moved).
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And if it's your first time voting, Vote63 also has a checklist that'll help you register, find your polling place, and figure out everything you'll need to know to cast a ballot.
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"I haven't been voting for a while — this time is very important," Ada Chan, a 30-year-old office worker, said as she left a polling place after casting her ballot early.
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Pichai said the search engine attempts to help people register to vote or find a polling place, but rejected assertions the company paid for Latino voters' transportation to polls in some states.
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" And Fergus Cullen, a former Republican state chairman, wrote: "I will pay $1000 to 1st person proving even 1 outofstate person took bus from MA 2 any NH polling place last ElectionDay.
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California now allows for same-day voter registration, which means any would-be voter can show up at a local polling place on March 3, register to vote and cast a ballot.
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When you check your local polling place, note any accessibility challenges and share them with your local election board and town leadership so they can make the necessary adjustments before Election Day.
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Under the new law, voters placed on the list do have 26 months to rectify any error, and if they present a valid ID card at a polling place, they can vote.
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Todd Saine tells TMZ he was checking in to his polling place at Columbus Technical College Tuesday morning when the polling staff told him he already voted, and couldn't cast another vote.
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As part of the settlement, Maricopa County election officials agreed to consider the Democrats' recommendations on polling place queuing and the use of electronic management systems, a copy of the agreement showed.
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This year, amid a tight race for Kansas governor, election officials in majority-Hispanic Dodge City moved the only polling place outside city limits, more than a mile from the nearest bus stop.
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In the days before the 2013 presidential election, a coconut that was covered in Arabic verses and "suspicious symbols" was discovered near a school that was to be used as a polling place.
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O'Rourke takes a photograph with first-time voter Josiah Martinez (left), his mother Jessica Bouffier, and sister Jordyn Martinez outside the polling place at the Grover and Carolyn Stewart Family Life Center, Nov.
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Tom Regan of Atlanta's WSB-TV tweeted that at a polling place in southwest Atlanta, "[h]undreds of voters" were waiting in line "for hours" because there were only three voting machines available.
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About 11 states and the District of Columbia go further, banning anyone wearing "political badges, political buttons, or other political insignia to be worn at or about the polling place" on election day.
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They said a polling place in Clark County had been improperly reopened to allow people to vote and asked that ballots from the precinct be separated and preserved for a possible future challenge.
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But what they probably don't know is that when they go to vote, they'll be subject to stringent restrictions on their freedom of speech from the moment they arrive at their polling place.
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Abu Fadi, a pro-government fighter serving in the desert gas fields west of Palmyra, said in a text message that a polling place there, mostly for soldiers, had closed three hours early.
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Washington (CNN)The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to take up a case concerning a Minnesota law that bans voters from wearing political badges, buttons or other political insignia at the polling place.
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In every speech this week, Mr. Obama has told his crowd the address of a nearby polling place; in Fayetteville, he notified them that there was an early voting location across the street.
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On Tuesday afternoon, the Stirrup Sports Bar in Nashville encouraged both its regulars and regular locals to meet at the bar, so they could carpool to the closest polling place to vote early.
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But Latinos also often live in other parts of the state than their black counterparts, so they may not have experienced the same kind of polling place closures that hit predominantly black counties.
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Mike Malone, an independent election consultant who recommended the polling-place closings, had been hired by the county earlier this year to help it with voting logistics after the county elections superintendent resigned.
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The Election Protection website, run by a nonpartisan coalition, highlights ways to register online, and be sure to research where your polling place is so you know where to go on Election Day.
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As Catalans Voted, 'Dying With Fear' at High School Turned Polling Place Students at the Moisès Broggi school created barricades to foil the police and used diversions to sneak ballot boxes to safety.
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After casting their ballot, voters on Tuesday left the polling place with a code that would allow them to log into a portal the following day to confirm their vote had been counted.
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A Nation Divided Outside a polling place in the suburbs of Detroit, a shouting match between two women escalated into a parking-lot scuffle, ending with one of them shoved to the pavement.
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Sometime on Tuesday, November 8, 1960, a 66-year-old widower and self-described "moderate Republican" went to his polling place in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, to vote for his state's junior senator for president.
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Credit...Illustration by Eric Yahnker On Election Day 2016, I sat in the passenger seat of Alex Jones's Dodge Hellcat as we swerved through traffic, making our way to a nearby polling place.
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While voting, if the wheelchair user has any questions, there should be volunteers/workers at the polling place that have been trained on the voting accessible machine and can be of proper assistance.
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Mr. Lucas noted that his longtime polling place — where he has previously voted for himself — was a Baptist church in an area where he estimated the electorate was about 80 percent African-American.
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The phone app proved especially useful in getting supporters to the polls when the government's own telephone information service giving out polling place locations suffered major problems on election day, leaving other parties scrambling.
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Potentially inaccurate claims about polling place conditions will be referred to the third-party fact checkers the company has partnered with as it looks to stem the tide of misinformation in its news feed.
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Weeks later, the committee expanded its investigation into other states, including Texas and Kansas, which had been accused of attempting to purge naturalized citizens and moving a polling place away from nonwhite voters, respectively.
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Voting in the United States, and almost every other country for that matter, is primarily done offline – in person and at a polling place, or sometimes by sending mail through the U.S. Postal Service.
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The campaign offers several pages of voter resources, including tools to help voters find their polling place, be prepared for local voting ID laws, and research their rights as students or former criminal offenders.
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Wallach notes that Hart machines can be disconnected from the local network at a polling place and taken outside to allow disabled and other non-mobile voters to cast a ballot in their car.
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Arizona Republic reported that a polling place in Chandler was foreclosed on the night before the midterms, locking poll workers out of the building and cutting off access to the ballots and equipment inside.
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A bad actor with knowledge of the exploit — which Cylance obviously didn't publicly release — would have to be physically present at a polling place to tamper with a machine after everyone cast their vote.
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The counties also are required under the ruling to provide Spanish-language election-related materials, both hard-copy and electronic: voter registration cards, applications, voter instructions, guides, polling place changes, sample ballots and more.
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A judge in Kansas has ruled against an effort led by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to force county officials to open a new polling place with just days before the midterm election.
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On Monday, Molly E. Neck, a San Antonio lawyer, said she found a sign at her polling place warning that voting required an ID card — the old requirement that was struck down this summer.
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You should check your state's laws to determine what sort of documentation, like a driver's license or utility bill, you may need to bring to the polling place for proof of your new address.
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And in recent days, outraged Democrats have rallied around the issue of Dodge City's only Election Day polling place being moved outside town, which many see as a blatant attempt to suppress Hispanic votes.
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Same thing — the California Legislature approved same-day voter registration, allowing anyone to cast their ballot on the same day they sign up, which can be done at any polling place in the state.
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"[Shelby] makes it much more difficult to evaluate the decisions they are making about polling place resource allocations," Sarah Brannon, a managing attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union Voting Rights Project, told Insider.
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Among the more interesting tidbits, Nielsen told lawmakers on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee that she pressed her polling place on voting machine security when she voted in Virginia this week.
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Outside a Lutheran church meeting hall in Mesa that is being used as a polling place on primary day, for example, where an eighty-eight-year-old woman sits, beautifully dressed for the occasion.
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It also more properly accords with the 85033 decision, which concerned a state law that barred distributing a candidate's campaign materials and telling people how to vote within 100 feet of a polling place.
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So while Trump has undoubtedly struck a chord on immigration with his supporters, it's unclear how many voters will walk into their polling place in November with solely that question and its implications in mind.
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"It turns into a catch-22 because we're not seen as a valid group of voters but people don't understand that it's because of the difficulty in even getting to a polling place," Lopez says.
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" Even so, he argued that the county had a right to move the polling place because "the calls received from voters in the area indicated that the location may risk discouraging voters from turning up.
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Why it matters: There are dozens of ways to interfere with an election without touching voting equipment, ranging from causing traffic jams to blasting air conditioning in a polling place on an already cold day.
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The Pascua Yaqui still have a polling place available on Election Day, but tribal leaders feel the removal of the early voting site wasn't done with a commensurate effort to encourage alternate methods of voting.
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK At Donald Trump's polling place in Midtown Manhattan, a PEOPLE staffer was in line as two protesters pushed past Trump's Secret Service, stripped off their shirts, and streaked through the room.
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Voters opposed to the state law said posting ballot selfies was an effective way to win support for particular candidates, and that the state and city restrictions on polling place activity impeded their free speech.
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And in terms of long lines due to polling place closures, other studies estimated that previous experiences with long lines decreased turnout by only a fraction of a percentage point in 2014 compared to 2012.
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My name was left off the polling registry today on Los Angeles Turns out he was among the nearly 120,000 L.A. County residents whose names were left off the voter rolls at their polling place.
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She had a chance to engage at a more personal level with the Florida senator at her polling place, asking him about his plan to fund cures for cancer, a disease that her husband has.
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While polling place cutbacks are on the rise across the country, including in some Democratic-run areas, the South's history of racial discrimination has made the region a focus of concern for voting rights advocates.
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This would not solve the problem Cuomo cited as his primary concern: that voters risk exposure by coming into contact with high-touch surfaces such as ballot pens and the handles of polling place doors.
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A report from the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights notes that Texas, now no longer subject to Justice Department pre-clearance under the Voting Rights Act, leads the nation in polling place closures.
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Ms. Romero said she feared the new polling place would be too far away for some people, and too much trouble for those who work long hours or might not have heard about the switch.
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Some Hondurans argue that the only route out of the crisis is for the commission to do a recount at every polling place with international supervision and with the participation of all the political parties.
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Another website that lets people quickly check their voter registration status is run by HeadCount, a nonpartisan group; you can use it to verify that you are registered and the location of your polling place.
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"Voter fraud" as conventionally meant by Republicans looks something like this: Somebody shows up at the polling place and presents false identification and then votes, thereby casting a vote that should never have been cast.
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"The only time armed Secret Service personnel would be at a polling place would be to facilitate the visiting of one of our protectees while they voted," Secret Service spokeswoman Catherine Milhoan told the Globe.
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Pennsylvania does not allow early voting, but those who voted by an absentee ballot could cast a different vote if they were able to show up in person at their polling place, according to PennLive.
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In 2013, not long after a conservative-led Supreme Court gutted key provisions in the Voting Rights Act, Prairie View's student leaders were once again asking county officials to put a polling place on campus.
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As of Tuesday morning, Ward 10 has the largest registered voter base of any of the city's districts, at about 3,500, according to Jae Whitelaw, who's moderating voting at the Mill Brook School polling place.
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Langer, the story went, had told Trump that he was prevented from voting on Election Day while others in line at his polling place -- including many of Latin American provenance -- were permitted to cast suspect ballots.
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Trump swooped through the synagogue-turned-polling-place in all of about twelve minutes as the characteristic horde of reporters and cameras chased the candidate in an action sequence emblematic of the billionaire's media-centric campaign.
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Most states -- 37 for this year's balloting -- now also offer some form of in-person early voting, where any voter can go to a polling place before Election Day and cast a ballot for any reason.
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Uber: With the help of Google, the Uber app will remind users that it's election day, help you not only locate their polling place based on their registration address, and take them there with a tap.
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Enter in your address, when you registered and select "Uber to Your Polling Place," and it will then populate the Uber app with your designated polling station and show the hours of operation and ballot information.
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According to the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder, the names of 118,522 voters were omitted from the roster that poll workers use to check in voters at their polling place, due to a random printing error.
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Polling place accessibility is legally required under the Americans with Disabilities Act, but the Government Accountability Office estimates that only 27 percent of polling places were actually accessible in the 2008 elections, the latest data available.
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Legally, the results tabulated and reported on election night are considered "preliminary" in most states; it can take states a few days or sometimes weeks to determine the official count of polling-place and absentee ballots.
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"If you want to restrict voter turnout in minority and disadvantaged communities, a good way is to move a polling place somewhere they can't get to," said Stacey Abrams, Democratic leader in the Georgia state legislature.
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Other scholars and activists point to what they say are racially or otherwise discriminatory state-level voting policies states such as voter ID laws, cuts to early voting, polling place closures, and limits to pre-registration.
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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is demanding the Department of Justice (DOJ) launch an investigation into whether the U.S. Border Patrol intimidated voters by scheduling a "crowd control" exercise near a polling place in Texas.
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The location of the new polling place is more than a mile away from the nearest bus stop, they said, and many Latino voters don't have flexible work schedules that will allow them to travel there.
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In Dallas County, one polling place remained shuttered for about two hours after it was scheduled to open, Mr. Gutierrez said, because the election worker who was responsible for opening it had died the previous night.
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This is the closing argument section of the ad, in which the woman arrives at her polling place and — about to fill in her ballot by hand — reflects for a moment on whom she should choose.
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Nick was one of the first to show up bright and early Tuesday morning at a polling place in Sherman Oaks, CA ... but encountered some trouble when poll workers couldn't find him on the roll sheet.
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As for "missing" ballots, Mr. Trump may be repeating suspicions by Senator Marco Rubio, Republican of Florida, about a box labeled "provisional ballots" that was left behind at a school that served as a polling place.
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They were helped by an order from Ken Blackwell, Ohio's Republican secretary of state, permitting a challenger for every precinct, despite a state law allowing only one per polling place, most of which contain several precincts.
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The alternative of keeping a traditional polling precinct structure in place — where in-person voters must go to a single designated polling place near their home — will be "very hard" in a pandemic, McReynolds told me.
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The court has already heard challenges from a Colorado baker who refused to make a cake celebrating a same-sex marriage and a Minnesota man blocked from wearing a tea party shirt to his polling place.
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On Election Day in East Cobb, a man pulling out of a polling place parking lot in a Jeep asked Ed Neubaum, a man with an Ossoff sign, whether he was a fan of Nancy Pelosi.
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Kemp, who went to his home polling place in Winterville, Ga., on Tuesday afternoon, had to go back and get another card after unsuccessfully trying to vote, according to Atlanta's ABC affiliate, Channel 2 Action News.
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They learn how an election is supposed to be conducted, know what to look for, and understand the importance of conducting themselves appropriately in the polling place so as not to intimidate voters or disrupt voting.
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David Breemer, the challengers' lawyer who argued that the law violates the guarantee of free speech under the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment, said both slogans should be protected as "legitimate speech" allowed in a polling place.
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So far, the site Electionland — a project set up by ProPublica in partnership with several other news organizations, monitoring voting access and turnout — has only identified one verified example of intimidation at an early polling place.
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If it turns out you're at the wrong polling place, they'll help you figure out where you need to go, and if you're eligible to vote, most states will allow you to fill out a provisional ballot.
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A 77-year-old Texas voter with an oxygen tank and a "Beto for Senate" T-shirt won hearts on the internet when she was moved to tears while discussing the Democratic candidate at her polling place.
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Stephanie Tsepas, who ran into Rubio at her polling place in Derry Tuesday, had gone to see one of his town halls Friday and left with a headache, she said, because he seemed so robotic and rehearsed.
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In 2016, a Russian troll group ran an online disinformation effort attempting to convince Hillary Clinton supporters that they didn't need to go to a polling place to vote, and instead could vote online or by text.
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They argue that voters are less likely to vote when they believe they will have to spend more time at the polling place, or some voters may think their provisional ballot won't matter since it's counted later.
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A Nevada judge on Tuesday rejected a request from Trump for records from a Las Vegas polling place that his campaign said had improperly remained open last week to accommodate people who were lined up to vote.
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Ms. Cox said she had mailed letters to residents about the new polling place this fall, but she acknowledged that newly registered voters also received cards not long ago bearing the earlier address, not the new one.
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"After you have voted ... stay in front of the polling place until our observers have obtained the vote tally sheet to prevent any cheating," Tshisekedi, the president of Congo's largest opposition party, told supporters at a rally.
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"Lightfoot will bring more change because Preckwinkle is connected to the old-boys club, the establishment," said retired mailman Gary Muckle, 77, after voting for Lightfoot this weekend at a polling place on the city's north side.
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On Election Day, she and her husband, Erik Henderson, performed their chaotic ritual of getting three young children fed, a train of cereal, yogurt, bagels and drinks, then off to school, before heading to their polling place.
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In its objections, Columbia said that during the election, "known union agents" stood within 100 feet of a polling place — an area voters had to pass through in order to vote — and had conversations with eligible voters.
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"You're seeing a pattern of polling place consolidations in cities and counties around the country," John Powers, who serves as counsel in the Voting Rights Project at the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, told Vox.
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Jennifer Hsu, a senior producer at WNYC, reported long waits and broken machines at a polling place in Crown Heights, Brooklyn: People are leaving because it's a 2 hour wait at PS 316 in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
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Jack Joa, a high school student who suggested letting 17-year-olds vote in primaries, said he was preregistered but was turned away at his polling place during Minnesota's August primary because he was not yet 18.
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But a California church's decision to put up its own Black Lives Matter signs in a predominantly white area allegedly drew complaints that cost the church its position as a local polling place, according to a new lawsuit.
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As the suit moves forward, Kutzmark says he hopes the lawsuit will force the county to reinstate his church as a polling place, and that the court will agree the church has a right to have the banners.
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Vermont has same-day registration at the polls on Election Day, which is new as of January 17, 2017, so if it's getting close to November 6, 2018 you might just want to register at your polling place.
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The law is similar to one in Tennessee that the Supreme Court upheld in 1992 barring vote solicitation and the display or distribution of campaign materials within 100 feet (30 meters) of a polling place, the state said.
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In short, the real loser of the night was anyone in the Republican party that will have to use smelling salts to get up off the floor of their respective polling place and actually vote for the nominee.
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While RUP is coordinating with drivers in and around San Juan County to get voters to the polls, some voters live down dirt roads, more than an hour from their polling place and miles from their nearest neighbor.
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Judge Robinson wrote in the ruling on Wednesday that those voters should have received postcards with information telling them of their polling place and their registration status, but Mr. Kobach did not ensure that the postcards were sent.
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The Republican front-runner cast his ballot Tuesday morning in the New York Republican primary, making what he called an "easy decision" and a "great honor" at a polling place just a few blocks away from Trump Tower.
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For exit polls, voters leaving the polling place in selected voting districts are handed a questionnaire with both demographic (sex, race, age) and attitudinal questions (Do you approve or disapprove of the way Congress is handling its job?).
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As Devigili spoke to a reporter, Albina "Beanie" Maddon, Joe's mother, strolled past on her way to the polling place at Most Precious Blood church, just a few blocks away from the family's deli, the Third Base Luncheonette.
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After Republican officials said in September they would move the Hispanic-majority city's only polling place to a remote spot outside the city limits, across railroad tracks and away from bus lines, Torres decided to vote by mail.
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Merrimack, New Hampshire (CNN)Even after the voting was supposed to be finished in New Hampshire on Tuesday night, a line of full of cars and voters were still waiting to get into a polling place in Merrimack.
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The voter must invest time and energy learning about the issues, learning about the candidates, and actually getting to the polling place, to cast a vote that will ultimately not change the outcome of the election at all.
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But the Lincoln Park site, which had just 230 voters cast a ballot in person on Election Day 2012, was more easily combined with a polling place in the center of the nearby town of Thomaston, he said.
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Clinton was less conditional in Atlanta's West End, where African-American voters trickling into a polling place at West Hunter Street Baptist Church had warm things to say about her, but warmer things to say about her husband.
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Some people may lack transportation, not know how to use the voting equipment, feel discouraged from failed attempts in the past or have a physical disability that makes a polling place inaccessible to them, according to one report.
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Andy Cilek, a Minnesota voter and executive director of the Minnesota Voters Alliance, was temporarily blocked under Minnesota law from voting because he was wearing a T-shirt that stated "Don't Tread on Me" at a polling place.
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I wish I could tell you exactly which presidential election it was that first time (I think I was 6, but maybe I was 10), but I was certainly taken to the polling place and into the booth.
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If you are on a campaign or party committee's voter list, you may receive legitimate text messages on Tuesday encouraging you to vote, offering you a ride to the polls, or telling you where your polling place is.
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Vital Kamerhe, a politician from South Kivu province, and a witness, who wished to remain anonymous, said an altercation broke out at a polling place in the town of Walungu after voters accused an election official of fraud.
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Such time-off policies could also help hourly workers who may work non-traditional shift schedules, as well as parents who would otherwise need to coordinate before- or after-work child care while they visited their polling place.
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The campaign operative charged with multiple felonies for his role in the 2018 congressional election in North Carolina's 9th District was the first person to cast a vote Tuesday morning at his polling place, according to an observer.
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"People aren't in agreement with this," Daniel Ponza, a drywall contractor, said Sunday as he watched a few dozen people outside a polling place in El Valle, a traditional stronghold of the ruling Chavista movement in western Caracas.
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States, particularly those controlled by Republicans, have made several changes this year, from strict voter ID laws to polling place closures, to make voting harder — typically in a way that targets minority voters who tend to vote Democrat.
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Even though the device doesn't tally actual vote results, and instead simply registers voters at a polling place, a compromised machine's lack of security could be used to disenfranchise tens or hundreds of thousands of voters on voting day.
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The Trump campaign alleged in a lawsuit filed in a Nevada state court on Monday that Clark County Registrar of Voters Joe Gloria violated state law by keeping the polling place open two hours after their designated closing times.
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And Dodge City, Kansas, which is 22014 percent Hispanic, has moved its only polling place outside of town and a mile from the nearest bus stop in a move seen as calculated to depress turnout among the 20133,22013 residents.
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The voter would then be given a tracking code that lets them see that their vote has been, say, recorded locally at the correct polling place, or perhaps that it has been sent on to state authorities for auditing.
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"This has been a joy during the last two weeks to be here all over the state and I hope everyone gets out to vote," Clinton said outside the polling place, cautious to violate election laws by talking politics.
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"Using our technology and resources, we can help make it easier for every Uber rider in the US to get to their polling place at the push of a button," Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in a blog post.
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Hackers can break in and delete or alter individual voter registration records, creating confusion on Election Day when voters show up to their polling place and their names are mysteriously missing from the rolls, or their address is changed.
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Then on Wednesday, the star shared photos of Tim McGraw and Faith Hill ("The King and Queen of Nashville," wrote Swift on the snap) as well as Maren Morris and her husband Ryan Hurd at their local polling place.
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So if voters received misleading emails or Facebook messages falsely claiming a polling site had changed, local election officials would be required to inform voters of the correct polling place, so their ballots could still be cast and counted.
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Since this ruling, we have witnessed efforts by Republican-controlled state legislatures to restrict access to the ballot through strict voter ID laws, voter roll purges, polling place closures in minority communities, and the elimination of early voting periods.
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"We see no basis for rejecting Minnesota's determination that some forms of advocacy should be excluded from the polling place, to set it aside as an island of calm in which voters can peacefully contemplate their choices," Roberts wrote.
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In 2008, a small contingent of New Black Panthers—members of what the Southern Poverty Law Center calls an antisemitic hate group—showed up at a polling place in Philadelphia, seemingly just to scare the hell out of people.
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In Washington, D.C., Ian Watlington, who has cerebral palsy, was forced to navigate his wheelchair up a steep ramp and over gaps in the concrete to reach a difficult-to-operate door — all to get inside a polling place.
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Opponents call that a smoke screen, and say the legislation is crafted to curtail early voting by requiring local election officials to staff every polling place 12 hours a day for all 17 days of the early voting period.
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New peer-to-peer texting apps allow campaigns to send rapid-fire text messages to voters, personalized with details like the voter's name and nearest polling place, without running afoul of anti-spam regulations that prohibit unsolicited bulk messages.
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Washington (CNN)Several Supreme Court justices seemed troubled on Wednesday with the breadth of a Minnesota law that prohibits individuals from wearing political apparel at a polling place, but struggled at times as they discussed a more workable solution.
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The president said that Langer, a German native who lives in South Florida, had told him about being turned away from a polling place while others who appeared to come from foreign countries were allowed to remain in line.
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Outside a two-story Spanish-style home in Los Angeles, just blocks away from a polling place that discharged a steady stream of people wearing "I voted" stickers, Juan Manuel Campos worked arranging bricks while fellow workers laid cement.
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The mayor of Kansas City, Mo., was turned away from a polling place when he tried to vote in the state's primary on Tuesday, a development he found frustrating and emblematic of broader problems with the American voting system.
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If your own polling place isn't suitable — unable to accommodate wheelchairs, for example — the Voting Accessibility for the Elderly and Handicapped Act of 1984 requires election officials to make sure you have an alternative way to cast a ballot.
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As voters head the the polls today — and if you are a US citizen and haven't voted, please proceed directly to your polling place — here are the biggest storylines I'm watching — in roughly descending order of how important they are.
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In North Carolina, the NCCU School of Law polling location had two-and-a-half-hour lines, which explains why the North Carolina Board of Elections extended polling place hours at some North Carolina voting sites to 8:30 p.m.
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In addition to the simple message, Google created a tool that not only helps users find their local polling place for the election, but also helps explain the process with information on how to vote in both English and Spanish.
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In another major ruling involving free speech at polling sites, the high court in 1992 upheld a Tennessee law barring the solicitation of votes and the display or distribution of campaign material within 100 feet (30 meters) of a polling place.
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You show up to your polling place take a number like you do at the butcher, they call your ticket, you walk up the counter and say to the guy give me a pound of whatever's about to go bad.
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If someone shows up at the polls without a valid ID, the groups have developed a system: a tribal letter with their address written on it, issued by a tribal official who will be stationed at the polling place Tuesday.
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This is perhaps the most consequential midterm election in recent history and you registered to vote, researched the candidates and measures that will appear on your ballot, and are excited to make your voice heard at your local polling place.
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To further strengthen our data, we contacted individual county or state authorities with over 50 polling place closures, or ones that had changed their number of polling places by more than 50 percent, in case there had been a recording error.
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Of course, no one is saying you can't have a Green Party T-shirt cannon or a Libertarian polka band perform on Election Day in Hawaii -- you just have be more than 200 feet from the polling place when you do.
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"Given the important decision people around the country will make on November 8th, we wanted to make getting to and from your polling place easier than ever," said Niki Christoff, the company's head of federal affairs, in a blog post.
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When they enter a polling place, Texans can't wear anything related to a candidate, issue or political party, including anything that has been on the ballot in the past, is currently on the ballot or might be on a future ballot.
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It's why you'll often see a dense flock of yard signs that runs right up to the 100-foot buffer outside the polling place door, or why a candidate's supporters can wave from the parking lot but not follow you inside.
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The case is brought by Andy Cilek, a Minnesota voter and executive director of the Minnesota Voters Alliance, who was temporarily blocked from voting because he was wearing a T-shirt that stated "Don't Tread on Me" at a polling place.
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One from each party checks the identification of each voter, one is a sheriff who maintains order inside and outside the polling place, and the fourth works with the other three in a bipartisan resolution of issues that may arise.
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In addition, it is past time for Congress to make an essential investment in our democracy by allocating additional federal funds for modern, secure and reliable voting systems at every polling place in order to ensure free and fair elections.
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In an interview, Harper remembered visiting a polling place on the final day of early voting, March 16, and watching two young women sit in their car, clearly psyching themselves up to get out and walk to the polling booth.
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That meant Pelzel could vote at any polling place in Harris County, so when she saw the green check mark over TSU on the website indicating there was little to no wait, she hopped on her bike and cycled over.
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" "Bloomberg awoke early on that crisp and cloudless Tuesday and walked from his East Side mansion to his neighborhood polling place, where he saw his name on an election ballot for the first time, as a Republican candidate for mayor.
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"Minnesota's limited prohibition is a reasonable restriction of speech in a quintessential nonpublic forum that protects the integrity of elections by preserving order and decorum in the polling place and preventing voter confusion and intimidation," they argued in court papers.
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Linda Robinson, the longtime chief clerk at the polling place, told me that any turnout above 1,000, even in a presidential election, is quite high for that precinct — and that they appeared well on the way to topping that benchmark.
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But the law also permits parties and candidates to send poll watchers into each polling place to stand over the election officials and monitor them as they work — extra eyes on the process and another layer of protection against fraud.
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Anyone else who appears at a polling place to attempt to get close to voters who look like they "can't speak American" in order to "make them a little bit nervous" is most likely going to be removed and arrested.
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Minnesota's law is similar to one in Tennessee, upheld by the Supreme Court in 1992, that bars the display or distribution of campaign materials and voter solicitation within 100 feet (30 meters) of a polling place, Minnesota noted in court papers.
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"My take is it's going to probably be decades before we've made enough progress on just fundamental computer security problems before we can offer the same security with online voting that we expect today from paper ballots in a polling place," Halderman said.
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In an early Election Day tweet, vice presidential hopeful Tim Kaine admitted that, despite his best efforts to be first in line to vote, there was one person ahead of him at the polling place this morning: a 99-year-old woman.
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However, it does impose restrictions on Trump supporters who take it on themselves to monitor voting activity, saying they may not interrogate voters within 100 feet of a polling place, block them from entering, or photograph them as they come and go.
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Hillary and Bill Clinton voted on Tuesday morning at Douglas G. Grafflin Elementary School in Chappaqua, the same polling place they have been visiting since 2000, when the couple moved from the White House to the small hamlet north of New York City.
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Tennessee: At a polling place in Knoxville, voters who showed up to the middle school that housed a polling site had to cast paper ballots as the location had a power outage Tuesday morning and its generator failed as well, CNN reports.
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"The question for schools would be whether their polling place that they use for elections does provide a degree of adequate separation or security so that school can continue to go on safely without disrupting the educational process," Stephens told NBC News.
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Their 2016 paper showed that while white voters disadvantaged by the closures turned to other ways to cast their ballot, black and Latino election turnout in the county dropped by 3 and 5 percent, respectively, for voters whose polling place had changed.
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On Friday U.S. District Court Judge James Gwin imposed new restrictions on those who monitor voting activity, saying they may not interrogate voters within 100 feet of a polling place, block them from entering, or photograph them as they come and go.
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But Rubio's second-place polling place in New Hampshire didn't translate into actual second place — perhaps because of his "robotic glitch" gaffe during Saturday's debate in which he repeated the same talking point ad nauseam, even after Christie called him on it.
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Most states require employers to give employees paid time off to vote, so be sure to check your state's laws here, as well as this polling place locator so you know exactly where to show up to cast your ballot on November 6.
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The Cruz Crew app also uses location — again, with permission — for volunteers who agree to knock on neighbors' doors and canvass in support of the candidate, or to help likely voters identify the nearest polling place or caucus meeting site, Peters said.
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On Tuesday morning, Pamela Aguirre showed up to her polling place in El Paso, Texas, to cast her vote for the Democratic Senate candidate hoping to unseat Ted Cruz, dressed in a "Beto for Senate" shirt and wheeling her oxygen tank alongside her.
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High turnout at one polling place led to a line twisting around a junior high school gym on Manhattan's Upper West Side, according to the AP. Two of the roughly six scanners in the facility weren't working, poll workers told waiting voters.
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Suspicions about the motive behind the polling place change come naturally in Kansas, where Republican Secretary of State Kris Kobach, one of the country's foremost advocates of restrictive voting and immigration laws, is in a tight race for governor against Democrat Laura Kelly.
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"One of the reasons I leave New York and regularly travel to work on progressive campaigns is because it forces me to interact with people who come from a different perspective," Shanahan said the other day, at an early-polling place in Atlanta.
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In short: I probably won't get harassed at a polling place, if only because I'm a white Californian, but in this batshit crazy year for democracy, why even go to the polls and face the vaguest possibility of a hassle from some activist?
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Which brings me back to my early — if slightly indistinct — memory of being taken to the polling place and introduced to the idea that Election Day was a big deal, and that voting was an important ritual and a badge of adulthood.
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"The most important thing you can say to parents is take your kids to the polling place the same way you would take them to church and talk about it on the way, about how you decide how to vote," Dr. Franklin said.
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Ms. Werner, of the Harris County clerk's office, said the campus was hosting a polling place for the first time in a presidential primary, and was swamped by an Election Day turnout that exceeded the total from 11 days of early voting.
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"Whereas in the past, [voters] had to be tied down to one polling place near [their] residence...now there's an option for those individuals to go anywhere, no matter where they are within Los Angeles County," Sanchez, of the L.A. County Registrar, said.
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At my polling place — appropriately enough, the Alfred E. Smith School on the Upper West Side, named for New York's original "Happy Warrior" — lines were longer than I had seen them on any Election Day save for the Obama-McCain election of 2008.
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Before that ruling, a polling-place consolidation proposal like the one that has rocked Randolph County would almost certainly have been subject to preclearance review by the Justice Department, with the county obliged to show that it would not disproportionately disadvantage minority voters.
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In an email provided to Business Insider, Maria Matthews, director of elections in Florida's Department of State, reminded state election staff they could use a state statute that allows for the relocation of an established polling place in the event of "emergency conditions."
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The solution to both turnout and poll worker problems, Ho said, is for states to increase education about their vote-by-mail programs so that people in any demographic can cast their ballots without visiting a crowded polling place on Election Day.
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Liza McClenaghan, the chairwoman of the governing board of the watchdog group Common Cause Florida, described voting on Tuesday as "a dog's breakfast," saying that polling place closures and a fragmented system for notifying voters of the changes had left many people confused.
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Visit CNN's Election Center for full coverage of the 2020 race For the states that hold caucuses, like Iowa and Nevada, exit polls are called entrance polls, simply because interviewers talk to voters as they're entering their polling place instead of exiting.
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Don't let anybody fool you with this nonsense nostalgia about bumping into neighbors at the polling place, seeing all the "I voted!" stickers, talking to the nice old ladies at the card table, and feeling a stirring of old-fashioned civic fraternity.
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And as regions that used to be covered by the preclearance provisions increased their purge rates, we found, so too did the number of people who showed up to vote at their polling place but were unable to cast a regular ballot.
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We have to vote in a single assigned polling place, likely far from our offices, and wait in line while a well-meaning poll worker paid by the party manually looks for our signature in a binder to let us cast our vote.
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So if you're in the back of a long line at 7:25 and there are still several people ahead of you when the polls close at 7:30 (if that's the closing time at your polling place), you can't be turned away.
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Our field experiment, involving more than 287,000 Pennsylvanians, revealed that asking people what time they would vote, where they would be coming from and how they would get to their polling place more than doubled the impact of typical "get out the vote" messages.
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The lawsuit notes that after the church refused to do so, the polling place moved to the nearby CrossCity Christian Church, which received complaints that it "displays controversial religious symbols and slogans" (the lawsuit does not detail exactly what these symbols and slogans were).
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"At a time when we are facing voter suppression across the country, I'm hoping that no other polling place will ever be disqualified for affirming the worth and dignity of black people and other people of color," Kutzmark told the Fresno Bee on Monday.
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A political science major at the University of North Georgia who juggles three jobs with classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays, she had a hard time finding time to drive home to Walton County, which had just a single polling place that offered early voting.
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"It is, of course, a heartbreak for all of the people who took their daughters and sons [to the polling place] because they personally were voting for the first female president and they wanted their kids to be a part of that," Bash said.
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Lawyers for the Colorado voters said the state's mail-in voting system, which allows ballots to be filled out anywhere and then either mailed or dropped off, sets Colorado apart from California and New York, where voters must cast ballots at a polling place.
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Instituting such a practice would increase the percentage of eligible voters who actually do vote, because people would not have to leave home early to stop at a polling place before going to work, or take extra time after work to go to vote.
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If a white person is presumed to be allowed to vote, a polling place may not bother to ask him for voter ID. But if a black or brown person faces greater suspicion of ineligibility, he's going to be asked for an ID more often.
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Samantha Miller, a spokeswoman for the state elections office, said that workers at Fairbanks's No. 6 precinct told officials that a woman had come into the polling place to request a special needs ballot on behalf of her husband, who was outside in a vehicle.
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All of that, of course, falls on top of more typical voting issues, such as a lack of access to transportation to get to a polling place on Election Day or being unable to take time away from work or family life to vote.
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According to the Chicago Sun-Times, the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners was left scrambling to find new voting locations after seven nursing homes in the city asked to be excused from serving as a polling place during its primary, also on March 17.
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"Election officials should ensure that each polling place is well-stocked with hand sanitizer and antibacterial, antimicrobial cleaning supplies, which should be used, among other things, to disinfect voting machines and voting equipment (including pens and touchpads) between each and every use," the guide says.
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The monitors are typically allowed inside the polling place, but their presence is often regulated with rules governing their training, numbers and authority, according to the A.C.L.U. In many states, they may inspect polling books and challenge the qualifications of voters, but with limits.
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In 16 other states, it is explicitly illegal, and can earn you a fine or even jail time: Many state laws are somewhat ambiguous: They may allow photos of mail-in ballots only, but disallow any photography in a polling place, for safety reasons.
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You can still go through the same-day voter registration process — although Mr. Mahood said he wouldn't recommend it, since it involves going to your county election office, a vote center or your polling place in person, where waits will probably be quite long.
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The campaign encourages people to bring their plus one to vote with them, after MTV research found people aged 15-22 are more likely to think inviting a friend to a polling place encourages others to vote than posting about voting on social media does.
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Studies have shown that the process of making a plan to vote — visualizing when you're going to go to your polling place, how you'll get there, and what you'll do before or afterward — is an effective way to make sure people actually follow through with their intention.
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It would benefit folks who are disabled, and have trouble accessing voting stations; people with PTSD, for whom a crowded and noisy polling place can be very stressful; or simply those who can't get time off from their jobs to make it to a voting location.
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"There's some strategies that are being put into place to try and mark the end the line, in traffic, with police cruisers, so that those voters snarled in traffic will be able to get into the polling place," Deputy Secretary of State David Scanlan told CNN.
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Shortly before the 2018 midterm elections, a voter sent a complaint to Orth's office asking "why it was okay to have a Black Lives Matter (a known domestic terrorist group) sign in front of our polling place," according to court documents obtained by The Washington Post.
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But Ms. Pearson's case is a reminder that it can also take the form of the aggressive prosecution of individual black voters for polling-place offenses — which in many cases appears motivated less by a sincere desire to address fraud than by a desire to intimidate.
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In Trump's case though, New York is pretty clear on the matter: "Those taking ballot selfies inside a polling place may inadvertently capture the ballots of other voters who did not wish to have their ballots publicized," Manhattan Federal Judge P. Kevin Castel ruled last Thursday.
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In the Ohio lawsuit, one of five that Democrats have filed in major states, Judge James S. Gwin issued a broad order that barred political workers from a range of activities within 100 feet of a polling place and 20133 feet of a line of voters.
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Poll taxes and literacy tests have given way to voter-ID laws, cutbacks to early voting and same-day registration, polling place closings, voter-roll purges, racially discriminatory redistricting and felon disenfranchisement laws — most of which, though justified on race-neutral grounds, harm minority voters more.
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Policies like automatic voter registration would protect the fundamental right of every eligible citizen to vote by making sure their registration is secure, accurate and up to date, so that no one eligible finds themselves kicked out of a polling place due to a paperwork error.
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In American elections, ballots, voting machines, and other election materials and equipment come into the polling place under lock and seal, remain in the room throughout the day, and are not removed until the election is over, when they are again locked and sealed against tampering.
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And if trans voters run into problems, NCTE recommends trying to find help first at a local polling place (where volunteers may help), calling the national Election Protection hotline (1-866-OUR-VOTE) for aid, and, as a last resort, obtaining a provisional ballot to vote.
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Affidavits from poll workers reviewed by the AP describe long lines that discouraged people from voting, poll workers failing to offer provisional ballots to people who didn't show up on the rolls or were at the wrong polling place and election equipment that froze and had to be rebooted.
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While several, including McConnell, have suggested running a last-minute write-in Republican candidate in the race to oust Moore, Flake offered another option: "If the choice is between Roy Moore and a Democrat, I would run to the polling place to vote for the Democrat," he said Monday.
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At each polling place, each candidate is entitled to one poll watcher whose application has to be approved in advance by the local supervisor of elections, so both the campaigns and local government officials have a role in identifying the individuals who are allowed to serve as poll watchers.
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CNN reports that the laws vary from state to state but generally fall within three tiers: states where you cannot take any photos in the polling place; states where you can take photos — but not of your completed ballot; and states where it's highly discouraged but not expressly prohibited.
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"Even if you can automate the process of being registered on a timely basis, the next step is getting them to know where their polling place is and actually turning out to vote," said Dora Kingsley Vertenten, a professor of public policy at the University of Southern California.
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But it turns out that could mean almost anything, as repeated cases have illustrated: It seems absurd to think that a mere "Black Lives Matter" or "Support Our Troops" t-shirt might be considered a threat to peace and decorum, but polling place restrictions know few sensible boundaries.
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When local elections are not held on the first Tuesday of November with other statewide and national contests, local voters need to learn the date of their local election, find their local election polling place and make a specific trip to the polls just to vote on local contests.
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Snapchat also drove users to the Get to the Polls portal on Election Day, to learn about their polling place, how to cast a ballot, the hours, and other logistical information – which CIRCLE says can be a barrier to voting if people feel they don't understand how it works.
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In the letter, Mr. Ertel also said that Ms. Bucher had refused to install servers to combat cyberterrorism, obstructed access to voting by putting a polling place inside a gated community and allowed damaged ballots to be duplicated behind closed doors, rather than in the presence of appropriate witnesses.
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Jacob Kleinrock was always planning on voting in the upcoming midterm elections, but it wasn't until Taylor Swift posted on her Instagram about the importance of early voting that the 29-year-old made the decision to head to his local polling place and cast his vote ahead of Nov. 6.
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On Election Day, users of Foursquare's check-in app Swarm can earn a virtual sticker when they check into a polling place, and anyone who checks into two restaurants, coffee shops or bars on Election Day will be entered to win a Roku stick, thanks to a partnership with CBS News.
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Tuesday, and Brandy Weston, 34, and her husband, Greg Weston, 45, had already gotten their voting out of the way, and were busy loading boxes of fruit onto the back of their pickup outside of their produce stand in Ashville, a little town a few miles from Mr. Moore's polling place.
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"Georgia has been a cause for concern for a number of policies, ranging from polling place closures to technical blocking of registration and purges, and Georgians deserve fair and accessible elections," said Myrna Pérez, the deputy director of the Brennan Center for Justice, a nonpartisan voting and civil rights advocacy group.
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It is to ensure there is no voter intimidation, that no political actors try to sabotage the polling through interference, intimidation or violence or booth capturing — armed thugs hired by a political party would seize control of a polling place and stuff ballot boxes — which was widespread two decades ago.
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Before we get to the actual nuts and bolts of voting, you should know that depending on where you live voting may be an annoying process requiring multiple trips to government offices, the post office, or a polling place, and you'll probably have to do it on weekdays when you're going to school.
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Valid excuses include being a student at a college or university out of state or out of the country, being on business travel or vacation outside of the country or your city of residence on Election Day or having an illness, injury, or disability that prevents someone from getting to a polling place.
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"Over the years, many voters have adopted the practice of dropping off their ballots at local Democratic Party offices, which may be closer than their polling place, so that their ballots could be turned in by party officials, staff or volunteers," said Spencer G. Scharff, voter protection director at the Arizona Democratic Party.
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Polling day was marked by stormy weather that knocked out power to a handful of polling stations near Scranton, delaying the counting of paper ballots, while a storm-related gas leak temporarily closed a polling place in the tiny borough of Delaware Water Gap, in the Poconos, according to the Pocono Record .
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In the deluge of news during the 2023 election cycle, many might have missed the case of Larry Harmon, a Navy veteran, who had entered his local polling place in 2015 because he wanted to vote on a marijuana legalization ballot initiative to find that he was not on the voter rolls.
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The nonprofit platform for voter registration, information and advocacy has teamed up with the Y Combinator graduate to launch a new nonpartisan social media app that syncs with a user's address book to help them quickly and efficiently remind their friends to check their registration status, find their polling place location and vote.
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Lois FrankelLois Jane FrankelDemocratic Women's Caucus calls for investigation into Epstein plea deal Epstein death sparks questions for federal government Attorney General Barr 'appalled' by Epstein death in federal custody MORE (D-Fla.) equated the election hacks with dropping missiles on a polling place in an interview with The Hill last week.
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"Had Russia sent missiles into Wisconsin or Pennsylvania to hit a polling place, there would be a lot of attention given to it by everybody and there would be no denial by the president of the United States of Russian intervention with our elections," said Frankel, a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee.
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" In addition to hiring more poll workers to manage these new systems, the guide encourages extending both voting hours and the number of days for early voting, including on weekends, in order to "reduce the number of people in a polling place at any one time, thereby reducing the likelihood of coronavirus transmission.
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Rebecca Gross, 16, a high school student who is staffing one of two precincts being served by a polling place at the Broadway United Methodist Church in Chicago, said Tuesday morning that her precinct had still not received the "blue box" full of election materials necessary to conduct voting, as of late morning.
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"At a time when the federal government should be deploying its limited resources to enforce the Voting Rights Act and to promote access to the polling place, we instead see them taking action intended to have a clear chilling effect on minority voters," President and Executive Director Kristen Clarke said in the statement.
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As she coordinated a pro-Ossoff sign-waving group in front of a polling place Tuesday in unincorporated East Cobb County, Ms. Rahman, an immigrant from Bangladesh, said she viewed Mr. Trump's policies as a flirtation with "tribalism," and spoke of him as a threat to the environment and the country's democratic institutions.
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One of these placebo headlines was that "leaked documents reveal that the Clinton campaign planned a scheme to offer to drive Republican voters to the polls but then take them to the wrong place," and its inverse in which it was the Trump campaign scheming to take Democrats to the wrong polling place.
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Then you'd still have to Jedi-mind trick lawyers, political operatives, and state election administrators, all of whom scrub precinct-level returns for aberrant election results and scrutinize any polling place result that is not in line with what they would have expected based on current political dynamics and historical election results.
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So the thing to say is that you are trying to cut down on in-person voter fraud, a scenario in which I show up at a polling place where I am not eligible to vote and impersonate a different person who has either not voted yet or who is on the rolls improperly.
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Here's more from the Times: The witnesses described the story this way: Mr. Langer, a 59-year-old native of Bavaria, Germany ... was standing in line at a polling place near his home in Florida on Election Day, the president explained, when an official informed Mr. Langer he would not be able to vote.
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"These polling place closures are part of a stark pattern that we are seeing across Georgia whereby officials are working to make it harder for African-Americans and other minorities to vote," is how Kristen Clarke, president and executive director for the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, put it to the Washington Post.
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"I'm Latina, and you'd think that's not someone I'd vote for, an old white guy," she said on Monday afternoon, standing outside a polling place at a park in the heavily Latino East Los Angeles named for Ruben Salazar, a Los Angeles journalist who was killed in 1970 during a protest against the Vietnam War.
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In 2008, when two members of the New Black Panther Party — one of whom was a registered election monitor — stood outside a Philadelphia polling place, gaining coverage prominently on Fox News, uproar was so serious that the Obama administration was attacked for not pursuing a formal civil rights inquiry into the suppression of white votes.
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So here's what you should know before you pose at your polling place: Update: Donald Trump's son Eric Trump, who apparently registered to vote after failing to do so before the New York Republican primary earlier this year, may have broken New York law this morning after he voted: He tweeted out a photo of his marked ballot.
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"I'm voting for Trump because he is the lesser of two evils in my opinion," says Domenica Garzarella, a mom from Exton, PA. Outside a polling place in Malvern, PA, voters trickled in throughout the day, casting ballots in a county that could help determine whether Pennsylvania turns red or blue in the 2016 presidential campaign.
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In both cases, you'll need to enter your home address where you're registered to vote in order for the correct results to be displayed (if you have your location saved in Google Maps it can also pull from there.) If you're looking for a polling place, the results will show designated polling places in your area.
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Generally speaking, the law divides motives for censorship into three categories—regulation that is content-neutral (don't blare your music on the train), regulation that is content-based but viewpoint-neutral (don't wave your campaign signs inside the polling place, regardless of which candidate you support), and regulation that is viewpoint-based (you can protest, just not about Democrats).
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A video circulated last week of a polling place in Wisconsin—which has a particularly stringent voter ID law—shows voting booths sitting vacant while a crowd of voters waits in line to be checked in; to make matters worse, a public-education campaign required by the state's voter-ID law never received funding from Wisconsin's Republican-controlled legislature.
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"The court of appeals' legal conclusion that the interior of a polling place is a non-public forum in which speech restrictions are constitutional as long as they are reasonable and viewpoint neutral is the same conclusion reached by every court that has analyzed the issue, " wrote Daniel P. Rogan of the Hennepin County Attorney's office.
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Iowa shows how technical errors can "can cause doubts that independently undermine confidence in results," said Nathaniel Persily, Co-Director of Stanford Cyber Policy Center: As I and others have been arguing, the technology involved beyond the polling place — including, in particular, the election night reporting system— can cause doubts that independently undermine confidence in results.
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The obstacles to voting now come in a dizzying array of constraints: voter roll purges in Ohio and Georgia, polling place closures in Arizona and North Carolina, newly erected barriers for college students in Texas and New Hampshire, signature mismatch laws to disqualify ballots in Michigan and Florida and unduly restrictive voter ID laws in Iowa and Wisconsin.
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Google Trends:"Dónde votar" ("where to vote") is the top trending search on Google in the US today: +3,20183%and3 of the top 5 trending search topics in the US right now are for the #midterms:-Polling place: +350%-Voting: +300%-Election day: +300% Google's data measures the percent increase, not the total number of times the terms are searched.
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" While stopping at a polling place, an event that was not on his schedule, the Vermont senator said he believes he will perform strongly in New Hampshire thanks to his volunteer army and "an agenda that speaks to the needs of working families all across this country who, in many cases, feel that Washington has turned its back on them.
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Though the secretary of state doesn't pass laws and has additional responsibilities outside of running elections, it's a relatively simple fact that the person who decides polling place locations, maintains voter rolls, promotes and implements election-related legislation, and helps determine the state's election security measures can have significant influence in a system where a citizen's right to vote is not guaranteed.
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Holder decision dissolved a key portion of the Voting Rights Act in 22012 on the implied assertion that racism is no longer a problem, the federal Commission on Civil Rights recently noted in a report that at least 22016 states have put in place new restrictions on voting, including voter purges, polling place closures, voter ID laws and slashing early voting.
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The analysis concluded that poll closures seemed to have the biggest role, although Hurricane Matthew was a big factor as well: In the 58 counties that have been plagued by neither flooding nor locked polling place doors (Unimpaired Counties) African Americans are voting at 91% of their 2012 rate – not great, but a definite improvement over the statewide rate of just 82%.
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In postponing or seeking to delay their primary elections, officials in other states are arguing that holding elections during a pandemic violates the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's guidelines, which advise against holding gatherings of 10 people or more and recommend that people stay 6 feet apart from one another — a difficult distance to maintain in a crowded polling place.
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"We've seen people who work for so-called ballot integrity organizations try to conduct match lists where they take the voter rolls and match them to a list of, say, convicted felons or a list of non-citizens, often in a really inaccurate way, [in an attempt] to find people who are ineligible and wait for them at the polling place," Ho said.
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"I feel you have got to keep working all day on Election Day and remind people how important it is to vote and don't let anybody get complacent because sometimes the public reporting of polls, somebody might say, 'My candidate is so far ahead I don't need to come out,'" Clinton said in a conversation with reporters while visiting a polling place outside Raleigh, North Carolina.
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