“Oh, you feel uncomfortable voting in a mosque? Thank you for informing this office of your concerns. You will find absentee ballots available there on the counter.”
THE MOSQue has THE SHARIa. THE SHAria AND Voting aren’t compatible.
Once again, Florida is the shining beacon of tolerance and understanding. The penis…of America.
I’m sorry but if you didn’t pull polling places from every single place of worship you are a bigot at best and not upholding the Constitution and religious liberty clause at worst. Quit giving in to the worst among us.
Oh please pretty please let there be a Satanic church available. (crosses fingers)
So Republicans ought to make up their minds. Do they want Muslins to assimilate or not?
After all, voting is quintessentially American - the basis of our Democracy. The Muslims ought to be lauded for offering their place of worship for a nonreligous purpose, consistent with Christian churches.
Instead, they get ostracized. And then Republicans wonder why Muslims feel like unwanted outcasts.
I suspect there is more to this story. I also suspect she acted out of an abundance of caution. I further suspect that the 50 residents that contacted her office to say they felt “uncomfortable” voting at the mosque did so accompanied with a (not so) subtle threat, thus there were serious safety concerns behind her decision.
These types of issues just highlight another of the myriad reasons elections should be held only by mail.
Doubling down on being a fool.
No, these issues hight the myriad reasons that threatening a polling place is an attack on democracy, and should be reported, investigated, and punished. Does anyone think that if threats are successful against this polling place they won’t be successful against college students, blacks, or other minorities?
I’m still of the mind of eliminating polling places altogether. Having people standing in lines — remember the fiasco in Cleveland(!) in 2008? — to cast a ballot is bullshit. And now that Rethugliklan secretaries of state have done everything they can to make it as hard as possible for people to vote …
If you were on my mail route, you would understand. 
I don’t completely trust that I would receive a ballot, and that it would get picked up. If I have to deliver it to a post office, I’d have to pass multiple polling stations to get there.
If someone wants to vote by mail (absentee) that’s fine. But lots of people don’t have truly fixed addresses from year to year, especially the poor and the underclass. I like being able to vote at any polling station (the upside of electronic machines) and the numbers who show up do at least have to match. Early voting, plenty of machines, and ability to vote at any precinct location all make it easier and more convenient to vote for a lot of people. Most places allow you to change your registration when you vote as well. Voting by mail can be good for some people, but not everyone. So why make it mandatory? I just don’t get it.
I love voting absentee but I agree it should not be mandatory, I do agree we should have more polling places and early voting.
Govmint buildings don’t have all these worries of religious overtones, can’t they just use them?
Cling on actually!
That would depend on how many government buildings they have and where they have them vs how many residents they have and where they are. If most of the government buildings are fairly centrally located and/or if there aren’t enough of them to handle the area population without overcrowding/delays that could be problematic.
If it restricted voting dates and made long lines I’m surprised Rs don’t jump all over that!
Not all precincts have government buildings. Or churches, or schools, or libraries, or any good place at all.
In fact, if your polling place suddenly ends up in suburban Fort Worth while you are on the Mexican Border after the GOP redistricts, you are screwed.
No need to disparage penises, many of which are indeed beacons of tolerance and understanding.
Since I left the religious right, I have always thought it a ridiculous idea that churches could serve as polling locations. I’m very uncomfortable going into them as an atheist, and it smacks of a true marriage between church and state rather than separation. At the very least, if Christian churches are allowed to serve as polling places, they must allow locations belonging to other faiths as well. I would be extremely grateful if no houses of worship were allowed to be polling places. I mean, a library sounds like fairly neutral turf (except, perhaps, for those who view reading books other than the bible as a waste of time and even sinful!).