Photos: US Presidential Elections: America’s Weird Polling Stations [PHOTOS]
By Umberto Bacchi | Nov 07, 2012 09:41 AM EDT
Millions of Americans have been lining up at polling stations to cast their ballot in what seems to be one of the closest elections in US history.
However some of them have been doing so in very unusual places.
On the East Coast the devastation caused by hurricane Sandy forced authorities to find alternative safe locations for people to vote.
But in other parts of the US polling stations have been found in casinos, shopping centres, a pet store, beauty salons and other unusual venues, providing photographers with some great photo opportunities.
Here is a collection of the best shots.
Voters cast their vote at Pressure Billiards hall during the US presidential election in Chicago
Source: Reuters Date:11/07/2012
Charles Durham votes at the Gordies Foundation Barber School during the US presidential election at Sam's Auto Sales in Chicago
Source: Reuters Date:11/07/2012
Barbra Hunter, of Chicago, casts her vote at the Urbanimal Pet Store polling place as "Oreo" the cat walks by in Chicago
Source: Reuters Date:11/07/2012
Sharon Applegate looks on as Josh Caruso signs the book before voting at the Bay Head Fire Company in Bay Head, New Jersey
Source: Reuters Date:11/07/2012
Voters cast their ballots next to cars at Sam's Auto Sales in Chicago
Source: Reuters Date:11/07/2012
Voters wait in line to cast their ballots at a polling station at Stuart-Hobson Middle School on Capitol Hill, Washington
Source: Reuters Date:11/07/2012
The Urbanimal Pet Store polling place during the election in Chicago
Source: Reuters Date:11/07/2012
A woman votes at temple in the Mission District in San Francisco
Source: Reuters Date:11/07/2012
A voter walks past an NYPD officer inside a polling site for the US presidential election built to service residents of the Queens borough neighborhoods of Breezy Point and the Rockaways in New York
Source: Reuters Date:11/07/2012
People vote at Crispus Attucks High School during the US presidential election in Indianapolis
Source: Reuters Date:11/07/2012
Coters cast their ballots during the U.S. presidential election at Delias Beauty Salon in Chicago
Source: Reuters Date:11/07/2012
A voter walks past an NYPD officer inside a polling site for the US presidential election built to service residents of the Queens borough neighborhoods of Breezy Point and the Rockaways in New York
Source: Reuters Date:11/07/2012
