PHOTOS: Philadelphia Voters and Their Very Quirky Poling Stations
Photo Essay: Yesterday, Nosotros Voted
We stood in line. We had our say. And we did it at some rather odd places
Photo Essay: Yesterday, Nosotros Voted
We stood in line. We had our say. And nosotros did information technology at some rather odd places
Nov. 09, 2016
Yesterday, in example y'all just woke upwardly from a long slumber, was Election Day in America. And here in Philadelphia, we voted potent. (Well, relatively.) We did it in schools, and firehouses, and Mummers clubs, and barber shops, and garages, and … well, anywhere within v blocks of our houses where the Ballot Commission could put upward a couple polling booths. It was a blast-biter of an election, and it's safe to say that anybody is happy to see it cease.
But yous know what? The voting was spectacular, as it always is. Because even if you didn't like the choices on the ballot Tuesday, one affair is unassailably true: That we had any option at all, and could freely make it at the polls, is something to celebrate.
We sent photographer Sabina Louise Pierce—and others on our team—around Philadelphia to capture some of our metropolis's unique polling places, and the voters who went out to be counted. We traveled from Northwest Philadelphia to Port Richmond and everywhere in between, bringing dorsum these gems that testify just exactly what we were hoping for: long lines, (mostly) enthusiastic voters and even a dog or two.
Southward Philadelphia voters lined up well before vii a.m. on November 8 to bandage their vote at Saint Maron'due south Maronite Catholic Church building at 10th and Ellsworth. Photo past Josh Middleton
With 4 spots to vote in the Mifflin Schoolhouse in East Falls, crowds were brisk just not heavy after nine a.m.
A local news agency interviews a female voter waiting in line at the Department of Health at Wide and Southward streets. She was waiting in a line that stretched around the corner at 10 a.chiliad. Photo by Josh Middleton
Polling station at the Penn Charter squash courts.
A voter arrives to her polling spot at Tony's Glass Works in Manayunk.
Golf clubs and voters fill the Walnut Lane Golf Form clubhouse in Manayunk/Roxbourgh.
Folks can cast their vote and get a tuneup at Derkas Auto Body in Port Richmond.
Painted Bride Fine art Eye in Quondam City, perhaps the about ornate of voting centers.
It was a trivial early for this poll worker at the Saint Monica Bowling Lanes in S Philly.
At Loftier Betoken Café inside the Mt Airy train station, where coffee, crepes—and voting—abounded.
#WoofsWithHer in South Philly.
Temple students waited for over an hour Tuesday afternoon at their polling place at 10th and Oxford streets. This photograph was taken effectually 4 p.m. Photograph past Gillian McGoldrick
Header photo by Sabina Louise Pierce
Source: https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/yesterday-we-voted/
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