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MOVED OR CLOSED POLLING PLACESMoved* Eastside 1 & 2: Tennessee Temple High School gym* Northwoods 1-5: Calvary Baptist Church Activities Building* Signal Mountain 1 & 2: Signal Mountain Presbyterian Church* Summit 1-4: Silverdale Cumberland Presbyterian Church* Birchwood: Meadowview Baptist Church* Meadowview: Highway 58 Volunteer Fire Hall 4Closed Precinct // Old polling place // New polling place* Cedar Hill // Cedar Hill Community Center // East Lake Recreation Center gym* Clifton Hills 1 & 2 // Tennessee Baptist Church // Tennessee Temple High School gym* Harrison 3 & 4 // Cornerstone Baptist Church // Harrison Ruritan Club or Bayside Baptist Church* Highland Park // Highland Park Neighborhood Center // Ridgedale Church of Christ or Tennessee Temple High School gym* Howard // Howard gym lobby // Merged with Alton Park at Bethlehem Center* Piney Woods // Wheeler Homes Office-Gym // Alton Park at Bethlehem Center* Sunnyside Friendship Community Church // Missionary Ridge Neighborhood Association old fire hall or Eastdale Recreation Center.Source: Hamilton County Election CommissionMORE INFORMATIONFor questions about where your polling place is located, check your voter registration card or call the Hamilton County Election Commission at 423-493-5100.
Election Day for Jerry Woods once meant a trip, leaning on his walker, from Whiteside’s Faith Manor, through a parking lot and across the street to the downtown Chattanooga polling place to cast his ballot.
This year Woods filled out an absentee ballot. He hasn’t moved, and his regular polling place at the Chattanooga Urban League on M.L. King Boulevard had not changed.
But because newly drawn political district lines cut right down the street, Woods and the other 107 people living at Whiteside’s Faith Manor on 10th Street now must travel two miles to vote. Many residents have disabilities; most do not have cars.