El Centro polling site welcomes you. Photo by Wendi.We stopped by El Centro de la Raza, our precinct’s polling site, shortly before 5 pm. There were a lot of people there (in a fairly tiny room) but no lines, and a lot of happy energy. If you haven’t voted yet, polls are open until 8:00 pm, and if you are in line before that time, you get to vote even if it’s after 8:00. So, no excuses — get out there and vote! If you have an absentee ballot in hand that you forgot to mail, you can drop it off at your local polling site.
I will miss these polling sites when we switch to all-mail voting next year. There was always something special about going in to vote next to your neighbors, and exchanging a few words with the poll workers. It was a great bit of Americana, and I think we’ll have lost a piece of our community’s soul when it is gone.
I’m in total agreement with you. It was a way to remember that voting is not just some blind opinion poll, but the very act of the people coming together to guide their government. (Well, that’s the theory, anyway.)
I agree, John. Even though I did a mail in ballot this year, I do miss voting at a polling site a bit. My wife and I attended the caucus earlier this year, and it reminded me of the missing community aspect of voting by mail.
That is one of the reasons I love the caucuses, though many people don’t.
I’m in total agreement with you. It was a way to remember that voting is not just some blind opinion poll, but the very act of the people coming together to guide their government. (Well, that’s the theory, anyway.)
I agree, John. Even though I did a mail in ballot this year, I do miss voting at a polling site a bit. My wife and I attended the caucus earlier this year, and it reminded me of the missing community aspect of voting by mail.
That is one of the reasons I love the caucuses, though many people don’t.