Californians: How long do you have to drive to vote?

[Orangepeel]

Dan Abrams just said on MSNBC that some Californians have to drive 2 hours to vote. I don't get it. I know that many people in Californians have long commutes to work, but why can't they vote near their homes?

[EFerrari]

1. If they have long commutes and vote in their own neighborhoods,

they have to commute to vote, too. I work from home and walk two blocks to turn in my ballot.

/typo

[tandem5]

2. 300 ft walk nt

[DJ13]

3. 1/4 mile

[tandot]

4. About 1 mile to the next mail box ... we voted by mail

[Mountainman]

5. When I lived in the mountains we did not have a polling place. Everyone mailed in their ballots.

I don't see how anyone would have to drive 2 hours to vote. That might mean their commute from work to home is two hours and after that they vote. The story doesn't sound right to me.

[Bluestar]

6. About one mile

[mikelgb]

7. If you have to drive from work to go vote it may be feasable

but I can walk to my polling place from my house in about 3 mins and most people should have the same situation

[AlCzervik]

8. 2 minutes, i would have walked but i drive some of the elderly folk to the polls.

[jlake]

9. When I lived in CA it was about 1/4 mile down the road.

My mother and sister both have to go about 1 mile. (3-4 minutes away)
My Grandfather walks 3 houses down and votes in a garage & my Grandmother (From the other side) votes at a school 2 blocks away


I heard that too, and don't know what he was talking about :shrug: :shrug: :shrug:

[Bluestar]

10. If this is true

It shouldn't be an issue if one has planned ahead as we can always choose to vote by mail. I would think anyone who has this problem would have declared themselves as an absentee voter (mail) by now.

[CreekDog]

11. My polling place is about 6 blocks away

though i'm a permanent absentee voter anyway.

California law dictates how large voting precincts can be (I think).

[tularetom]

12. I walk down to the mail box at the end of our driveway

probably about 500 feet. It rarely takes me as long as 2 hours.

[Orangepeel]

13. okay, that all makes sense. He must have meant that they vote before or after they drive 2 hours

on their way to and from work. Silly thing to say, but I guess if I had to attempt to make conversation with a parade of other talking heads all day, I'd say more silly stuff.

[Bluestar]

15. There are lots of two-hour commutes here in the golden state

They were probably trying to make a point that many people vote late. The polls are open here until 8:00 p.m (11:00 p.m. East Coast). With heavy turnout and going to paper ballots due to our wonderful new SOS who de-certified the evil machines, it could mean votes are not counted until tomorrow.

[fed-up]

14. two blocks-not two hours---used to have to drive 5 miles as I was rural nt

[Nailzberg]

16. Half a block.

Of course, being LA, I drove.

[in_cog_ni_to]

17. 2 minutes. It's right at the end of my street. VERY convenient. n/t