{"frontmatter":{"type":"Category","slug":"polling-places","name":"Polling place","plural":"Polling places","group":"civic","kind":"place","schema_type":"CivicStructure","description":"Polling places in Milwaukee County where voters cast ballots.","maps_from":["osm:amenity=polling_station"],"maps_priority":0,"id":"https://littlemilwaukee.com/places/polling-places#category","status":"stable","sources":[{"id":"editorial-policy","resource":"https://littlemilwaukee.com/about/editorial-policy","title":"Editorial policy, Little Milwaukee"},{"id":"wiki-polling-station","resource":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polling_station","title":"Polling station, Wikipedia"},{"id":"mke-voting-wards","resource":"https://data.milwaukee.gov/dataset/voting-wards","title":"Voting Wards and Polling Places, City of Milwaukee Open Data Portal"},{"id":"wis-stat-6-78","resource":"https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/statutes/statutes/6/iii/78/1m","title":"Wis. Stat. 6.78 (1m), hours of the polls, Wisconsin Legislature"},{"id":"wis-stat-6-55","resource":"https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/statutes/statutes/6/ii/55/2","title":"Wis. Stat. 6.55 (2), registration at the polling place, Wisconsin Legislature"}],"generated":{"by":"agent:claude-opus-5-5","at":"2026-11-02T04:00:00.000Z"},"verified":[{"by":"process:category-source-check","at":"2026-11-02T04:00:00.000Z"}],"photos":[{"file":"/categories/polling-places/matc-early-voting.jpg","credit":"Susan Ruggles","license":"CC BY 2.0","source":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Early_Vote-9.jpg","caption":"An early voting sign at the Milwaukee Area Technical College downtown campus, an early voting site and not a polling place, October 15, 2018 (cropped)"}]},"sections":{"What it is":"A polling place is where voters cast their ballots in elections [wiki-polling-station]. The City of Milwaukee Election Commission names one for each of the City's wards, with its address, its voter entrance and its accessible entrance [mke-voting-wards].","When and how":"In Wisconsin the polls are open from 7 a.m. until 8 p.m. at every election [wis-stat-6-78]. A voter who is not registered can register at the polling place on election day [wis-stat-6-55]. Each record on this list names the wards the building serves.","How a place gets on this list":"A building gets on this list when the City's voting ward file names it as a polling place [mke-voting-wards]. Polling places are not licensed businesses, so the business counts leave them out."},"jsonld":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"ItemList","@id":"https://littlemilwaukee.com/places/polling-places#category","name":"Polling places","description":"Polling places in Milwaukee County where voters cast ballots.","url":"https://littlemilwaukee.com/places/polling-places","itemListElement":[]},"url":"https://littlemilwaukee.com/places/polling-places","related_answers":[{"slug":"most-polling-places","topic":"Voting","question":"Which Milwaukee neighborhood has the most polling places?","answer":"Bay View has the most polling places of any City of Milwaukee neighborhood, with 6 polling places.","metric":"City of Milwaukee polling places","period":"As published for the November 3, 2026 election","url":"https://littlemilwaukee.com/answers/most-polling-places"},{"slug":"highest-voter-turnout-2024","topic":"Voting","question":"Which Milwaukee neighborhood had the highest voter turnout in 2024?","answer":"Fernwood had the highest 2024 turnout in the City of Milwaukee: 84.2 percent of residents aged 18 and over voted for president.","metric":"Votes for president per resident aged 18 and over","period":"November 5, 2024 general election","url":"https://littlemilwaukee.com/answers/highest-voter-turnout-2024"}],"category_page":{"listed_places":[],"on_record":{"note":"Little Milwaukee builds each record here from public data, such as City of Milwaukee licenses, and files it under this category. A record is not a listing: a place is listed only when it passes the inclusion rule and has its own page.","count":1,"full_list_url":"https://littlemilwaukee.com/places/polling-places/records","first":[{"name":"Capitol Drive Voting Center","url":"https://littlemilwaukee.com/records/capitol-drive-voting-center-a207fd","address":"6001 W Capitol Dr, Milwaukee","status":"unknown"}]},"discussions":{"open":[],"all_url":"https://littlemilwaukee.com/topics?about=%2Fcategories%2Fpolling-places.md"},"related":{"neighborhoods":[],"categories":[{"plural":"City and county offices","url":"https://littlemilwaukee.com/places/city-offices"},{"plural":"Police and fire stations","url":"https://littlemilwaukee.com/places/police-and-fire"},{"plural":"Post offices","url":"https://littlemilwaukee.com/places/post-offices"}],"collections":[]}}}