First District residents — essentially those in the northeast quadrant of the city — will soon vote at Divine Mercy School instead of the South Milwaukee Library.
The change, approved by the South Milwaukee City Council on Tuesday, takes effect July 1, so it will be in place for any August primaries and beyond.
First District residents will continue to vote at the library for the June 5 recall elections.
City Clerk Jim Shelenske suggested the move and the council agreed to it because the library is less than ideal. All voters must do so in the basement, making handicap accessibility an issue, and parking can be a problem.
Divine Mercy School, 695 College Ave., has ample accessible space and parking … making it a better option. Do you agree?
(Not sure what district you live in? See this map.)
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Changing again?? I agree that the library was a poor choice, but it was just a few elections ago that the city decided it was too expensive to do at Luther? But why DM now? Going from the southern tip of the district to the northern tip? Why not back to Luther – which is a public facility rather than a private one, it’s more centrally located, and has been the polling place for ages?
I hadn’t checked the blogs here in some time and only found out about the change from a flyer that was being distributed at the Library when I went to vote this morning. I completely disagree with moving a polling place to a religious institution even though it may be allowed. A polling place should be at a public institution. It’s too bad that accommodating polling places were not taken into consideration when public buildings were being built in South Milwaukee.
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