Opinion: Finding Your Polling Place -- And Then Some

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In California, of course, just about anyplace can be a polling place -- fire stations, retirement homes, libraries, businesses, even R-1 garages.

But until I double-checked my polling place on the LA County website, I didn’t know how specific the polling-place instructions actually got.

Mine directed me not only to the address, but told me to go to the ‘’green table.’’

My Times colleague Carla Hall will be voting elsewhere at ‘’the pink table.’’

Intrigued, I checked other addresses around Los Angeles County and found voters directed not just to stores and clubs and homes, but inside those places, to ‘’the redwood room’’ and ‘the cafeteria’’ and ‘’the card room’’ and ‘’the orange table’’ and ‘’the lounge’’ and ‘the garage’’ of a home, and -- my favorite -- ‘the showroom.’’ (I found two polling-place showrooms, in fact: one at a Harley Davidson dealership in Harbor City, and the other at a florist in Hermosa Beach.)

All of which, in this massive and populous county, I found quite touching and neighborly and downright Norman Rockwellian.