Here it is a month from the election and we have yet to receive our voter information packet in the mail. I found it online today. I was also looking for where our polling place is this time around. Guess where it is! Go on! Guess! That's right. We get to cast our votes in this federal election ... IN A CHURCH! Not one the schools in the neighborhood. Not at the fire station just up the road. Not even at the library or the city building or the rec center or the grocery store. Nope. A church.
So much for the seperation of Church and State, huh?
4 Comments:
Funny that you can vote in a church but can't pray in a school. hmmmmm
Thats...odd.
I too vote in a church.
I think we are missing a great opportunity to educate the next generation of voters by moving polling places into churches.When I was in high school my school was the neighborhood polling place. I remember seeing the machines and how they sparked political conversation with my classmates and teachers.
I think the whole church/state argument is as politically polarizing as the 2 party system and largely along the same right and left lines. So for me it's not that it's in a church... But more that it is not a neutral location. imagine from a conservative view point if your polling place was the office of the ACLU
maybe it's my own political paranoia but I don't think that the locating of polling places to churches in republican stronghold states is an accident.
http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/research/pubpolicy_wheeler_pollinglocation.shtml
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