Who Stole My Polling Place?
I Found Out on Election Day That My Rural L.A. County Precinct Had Gone Vote-By-Mail
Out of all the election-related direct mailers I’ve received these past few months none was more crucial than the one that arrived the afternoon of election day: June 3. A flier from the Los Angeles County Registrar informed me that my precinct no longer offered a place to vote in person. I’m now in a vote-by-mail precinct, and if I want to vote, I must mail a ballot in.
It would have been helpful to learn this information earlier—at least before I tried to vote election day morning. No location was …