I was thinking the same thing. I’ve only ever seen local voting in various schools and municipal buildings, so i looked up my local precincts:
60% vote in churches (though each church serves two precincts…)
none vote in schools.
At first I thought could be because the schools have tightened up security in recent years when it comes to visitors, but in next zone over in the same school district:
Wait. Are yall’s polling places libraries, not churches?
Churches? For real? Never occurred to me that was a possibility. Where are you from?
In my neck of the woods it’s city hall and schools. Public, secular buildings.
I was thinking the same thing. I’ve only ever seen local voting in various schools and municipal buildings, so i looked up my local precincts:
At first I thought could be because the schools have tightened up security in recent years when it comes to visitors, but in next zone over in the same school district: