It’s Election Day! Where To Vote? Find Out Here!

By on November 6, 2012 8:39 am in Brooklyn Heights, Government

Polls are open today, Tuesday, November 6, from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. To find your polling site, go to the City of New York Board of Elections website and plug in your address here at the top right of the homepage. It works! The webbie also offers iPhone and Android phone apps, if need be.

Polling at St. Ann’s & The Holy Trinity on Montague Street as of 9:30 this morning was chaotic, with the primary line 100+ deep. There are separate lines for Districts 13, 14 and 15. It’s helpful to know your District before you go. Prepare for a long haul, folks… Share info and war stories about other Heights polling sites below. (CT)

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  • BHMommy

    I got on line at St Ann’s around 11 and it took 45 mins for me to even get to the front door of the church. At that point I decided to flag down a pollster for a chair, since I’m 9 months pregnant and she pulled me to the front of the line. If that hadn’t happened, it would have been at least another hour. I ran into a friend from my building there and they sent her to the wrong line. I didn’t mind waiting bc they were accommodating other districts, but the people checking the names were beyond useless and incompetent, which is why it seemed to take forever. My husband went around 7 and got in and out pretty quickly.

  • Ja

    A neighbor,

    Not sure why they asked for your ID. That isn’t necessary in NY. Only a signature is required.

  • Heights Neighbor

    I voted at St. Ann’s & found it uncomfortable that they did not ask for ID. All you have to do is copy the signature in the book? This was my first time voting in NY and I was very surprised at how “lose” it was. As for the sticker, when I jokingly asked the poll worker for one he had no idea what I was talking about.

  • Heights Neighbor

    I voted at St. Ann’s & found it uncomfortable that they did not ask for ID. All you have to do is copy the signature in the book? This was my first time voting in NY and I was very surprised at how “lose” it was.

  • Mr. Crusty

    Obama wins ! YES!

  • David on Middagh

    Don’t worry, Heights Neighbor–if we see you about to vote twice by accident, we’ll let you know!

  • 70 yr old voter

    I voted at St Ann’s. Got there at about 4pm. It took 1 hour and 48 minutes! It was freezing cold because the line for District 15 went out the doors so they had to be kept open. What was making our line so slow was impossible to see from the line, but the A-L line was moving through at a normal speed and emptied while we on the M-Z line had to wait and wait. When I was at the desk at last, a gentleman came up to the poll worker (was he a supervisor? there seemed to be no one in charge) and asked her if she needed help because the line seemed to be moving slowly. She refused help and belligerently insisted that she was moving the people through very quickly. No action was taken. So one bully was allowed to hold us hostage and discourage voting. A fine system. When I looked for a voting “booth,” there were several free, but there were no pens. Oh, America, land of 10,000 square foot houses and primitive democratic mechanisms.

  • AmyinBH

    Flu and cold season. I brought my own pen.

  • Andrew Porter

    I brought the “Your Poll Site May Have Changed” notice that BoF mailed to me; it included not only my name and address, but my ED, Assembly District and Serial Number, so when I showed that, it made things a lot easier. I voted at 101 Clark; I used to vote at PS 8, but I suspect that because so many people have moved to DUMBO, I was displaced southward—and my suspicions are confirmed by comments here.

    I voted at 1:30pm, and the wait was about 15 minutes.

  • ClintonStRez

    I voted at PS 29. Lines were long — and exacerbated by bake sale set up right in the middle of the entrance where voters had to pass by to go vote. I understand that the school wants to make money on Election Day but they should not be allowed to obstruct people trying to vote. Tables inside and outside the building were both blocking voters. I don’t understand why the police on site allowed the situation to continue.

  • Andrew Porter

    The tables selling baked goods used to be inside the schools, but when the Board of Ed put through new intolerant rules about fat and sugar content, fund raisers were forced to take their offerings outside the schools. So that’s why there were tables outside.

    Or, as per your suggestion, a hail of gun fire would have solved the problem.

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