(7 Nov 2012) SHOTLIST
San Francisco, California
1. Mid of statue at Neptune Society Columbarium, where polling station is sited
2. Pull focus from flowers to voter and voting officials in the background
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mike Rogers, Director of Operations, Neptune Society Columbarium:
"It's been here for over 100 years. It's one of the only cemeteries, if you will, remaining in the city of San Francisco."
4. Mid of voters with stained glass window in background at columbarium
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Peter Peterson, Elections Inspector:
"I kind of like it. The occupants here are very, very quiet. They bother nobody."
6. Wide of voting machines in columbarium
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Peter Peterson, Elections Inspector:
"They're not registered!" (referring to the human remains stored at columbarium)
8. Wide of columbarium dome exterior
9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Kristen Sanzari, Voter at Neptune Society Columbarium:
"It's actually a very unique place to vote."
Chicago, Illinois
10. Exterior of 43-story condo building
11. Pan from Chicago skyline to voting inside
12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Election official at polling station in skyscraper, no name available:
"There are other beautiful views, but there aren't any better. That's how I would put it. So we're up there."
13. Pan from voter to Chicago skyline
14. Laundry spinning in machine
15. Mid of people voting in foreground, machines in background
16. Person getting laundry out of machine
17. Mid of people voting inside laundromat
18. SOUNDBITE: (English) Marialice Zintak, election official at polling station in laundrette:
"You really don't pay attention to what's going on back there, although every year I keep saying I'm going to bring my laundry and do it while I'm here. But I never do."
Venice Beach, California
19. Exterior of Venice Beach polling spot at lifeguard station
20. Voters enter station
21. Person voting
22. Wide of beach
23. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mary McNeill, Venice Beach Voter:
"This is the best place in the world to vote. I'm so excited to live here and vote right at the beach."
24. Mid of voters at stations
25. Voter and official
26. Wide exterior of station
27. Surfer riding a wave
STORYLINE
From laundromats to lifeguard stations, some Americans had the opportunity to cast their ballots in the 2012 Presidential election in a variety of unusual polling stations on Tuesday.
While most Americans vote at schools, churches or community centres, a handful San Francisco locals get to vote at a columbarium, which is a building housing urns holding the ashes of the deceased.
"It's been here for over 100 years. It's one of the only cemeteries, if you will, remaining in the city of San Francisco," Director of Operations at the Neptune Society Columbarium, Mike Rogers, explained.
"I kind of like it. The occupants here are very, very quiet. They bother nobody," quipped elections Inspector Peter Peterson, adding "they're not registered!"
In Chicago, Illinois, polling stations can be found on the top floor of a 43-storey skyscraper offering breathtaking views of the city, and at the back of a laundrette.
"You really don't pay attention to what's going on back there, although every year I keep saying I'm going to bring my laundry and do it while I'm here. But I never do," joked Marialice Zintak, an election official working at the laundrette polling station.
Meanwhile, in Venice Beach, California, residents were able to vote at the lifeguard's station before hitting the surf.
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