Voters: check your precinct locations before March 19!
BY JENNIFER CABRERA
ALACHUA COUNTY, Fla. – After Alachua County Supervisor of Elections Kim Barton filed a lawsuit against a church that served as a polling place, North Gainesville Baptist Church asked for liability protection as a condition of continuing to serve as a polling place, and apparently other churches followed suit because the list of polling places for the March 19 Presidential Preference Primary shows that a total of ten churches are no longer serving as polling places.
The list of polling place changes shows that Parkview Baptist Church, Northwest Baptist Church, Gainesville Baptist Church, University City Church of Christ, Oak Dale Baptist Church, First Baptist Church of Gainesville, North Gainesville Baptist Church, Gateway Christian Church, North Central Baptist Church, and Forest Grove Baptist Church are no longer serving as polling places.
Multiple precincts have been combined at the Alachua County Agriculture and Equestrian Center, North Central Florida YMCA, Santa Fe College NW Campus, Millhopper Branch Library, and Westside Recreation Center for the March 19 primary election.
Voters can use the Precinct Finder to check their polling place before Tuesday. Only registered Republican voters will have a contest to vote on in the March 19 Presidential Preference Primary.
That’s what many have wanted… separation of Church and State.
Unfortunately, it does cause some inconvenience.
Nice work Kim! I can’t believe your stunt actually worked!
What a clumsy b!tch! Didn’t she trip in her high heel shoes? Are they gonna be signing up for voters @ the jail or cemetery too?
Did she get a new vehicle at taxpayers expense?
Wow. They let the voters know about this the day before the election???
It’s a good thing that this particular presidential preference primary election doesn’t really count for much.
Voter suppression could really be an issue if the results of this PPP wasn’t already decided.
I sure hope they get their act together by August…
This information has been available for weeks. It is listed on the SoE website.
Some people just show up at their normal precinct on election day without checking the website. But, I guess voters can no longer assume that things are going to stay the same as they once were.
Your Voter ID card shows the new locations. If you read it, you would have seen that change.
https://www.wcjb.com/2023/05/08/alachua-county-supervisor-elections-sues-church-after-injury/
It was shameful that Kim Barton sued a church that was helping with polling. The rental fee paid to churches for the use of their facilities is paltry – doesn’t even pay for cleaning. So these churches hosted polling to serve their communities, and she had the nerve to deploy lawfare against one of those churches.
We have a choice this November – Judith Jensen is running for Supervisor of Elections in Alachua County. Her focus is election integrity. She is collecting petitions now, if you’re willing to help her get on the ballot!
https://www.jensen4alachuasupervisorofelections.com/
Ah, that’s why we finally received a sample ballot in the mail after years of nothing from Barton. I thought it might be an election year for her position!
Thanks for the info. I see that she is an 11-year resident, a Registered Nurse, and lists Election Integrity as her PASSION (original emphasis).
Sounds pretty good to me, imagine having an election supervisor that actually knows how to get stuff done in the real world, where doing things correctly is literally a life or death situation?
Kim “Elections is hard” Barton already set the bar extremely low (and still managed to trip over it), so just about anything is better. She’s a key part of the Democrat’s strategy of plausible deniability and voter-suppression-by-incompetence strategy though, so don’t expect her to go down without a fight.
Unless you are a wooden church ramp.
Nice interview with election office to learn more – oh wait, no interview happened.
How many churches are still a polling place?
All polling places are cleaned and left in same shape or better.
Why is Alachua Chronicle the only news outlet to provide this PSA?
It looks like https://www.votealachua.gov/Voters/List-of-Alachua-County-Precincts/Precinct-Finder still shows the church locations.
Because of this and many other reasons, I vote early at one of the many early voting places. Last minute changes/issues are getting to be more common. No lines, no surprises.