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Tampa Voter's Biggest Challenge: Finding The Polling Place

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By NEIL JOHNSON | The Tampa Tribune

Published: November 4, 2008

10:30 a.m.: Lissette Nazario spent longer trying to locate the voting place than waiting to vote or actually voting.

"It was fast and easy. There's no people. It's empty," she said.

What wasn't easy for her was finding the Boy Scouts of America Gulf Ridge building in Tampa where she voted.

"I drove around an hour to find this address. Maybe two," she said.

The building is on Central Avenue but not easy to find. From the north, the direction Narario came, you turn off Fletcher Avenue right at Interstate 75. From there, it's easy to wind up taking the entrance ramp to the interstate instead of Central.

The search was worth it, she said. "I woke up today just to vote. I think that we really, really need the change."

She said the election even prompted her son, who's 26, to vote for the first time.

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