The Weirdest And Coolest Polling Places Where Americans Voted
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How we voted this year took planning, preparation, and determination. Whether it was by mail, dropping off a ballot at a ballot box, voting early or showing up to the polls on Nov. 3, Americans look to be on track to break the highest voter-turnout rate in over a century.
Much like the diversity of the US, not every polling site looked the same. From Fenway Park in Boston, to Osmanthus Dim Sum restaurant in San Francisco, we looked at some of the most unique places Americans cast their ballots leading up to and on Election Day.
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A voter casts a ballot at a polling station at Osmanthus Dim Sum on Nov. 3, 2020 in San Francisco, California.
A voter fills out his ballot at a polling station in Su Nueva Lavanderia on Election Day in Chicago, Illinois.
Chris Harper casts his vote underneath the watchful eyes of Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020.
Voters fill out their ballot at Kings Theater on Nov. 3, 2020 in Brooklyn, New York.
Voters cast their ballots at the Moose Lodge on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, in Kenosha, Wisconsin
A voter stands by a pool table as he prepares to cast ballot at a polling station in Friends Bar on Nov. 3, 2020 in San Francisco, California.
Rachel McCrary casts her ballot in a Halloween costume at a vote center set up on the rooftop of a hotel in West Hollywood, California, Saturday, Oct. 31, 2020.
People cast their ballots in a voting center for the 2020 US Elections at the Grand Central Market in Los Angeles, California on Nov. 3, 2020.
Election officials sort through blank ballots in the polling area in the Kentucky Center for African American Heritage on Nov. 3, 2020 in Louisville, Kentucky.
A voter fills out a ballot at a polling station in Sam's Auto Sales on Election Day in Chicago, Illinois.
A "VOTE HERE" sign outside the Owyhee County Museum in Murphy, Idaho, on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020.
People fill out their ballots at a polling station in 5 Estrellas Restaurant on Election Day, in Chicago, Illinois.
The Shasta County Elections Department's outdoor voting area at Umbrella Alley has to be one of the most colorful places to vote in California this Tuesday.
Sasha Demienne votes at Almanac Beer Company in Alameda, California, on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020.
Polling workers with the empty voting machines during the General Election at the Miami Beach Fire Department Station 3 in Miami-Dade County on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020.
SAN A voter enters a polling station at the Museum of Ice Cream on November 3, 2020 in San Francisco, California.
A voter is given instructions how to cast her ballot from her car at a polling location on election day on Nov. 3, 2020 in Austin, Texas.
Voter Lupe Alcala, takes a picture of Chad Carmichael, from West Covina, California, after voting in-person on Election Day at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles .
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