As November 8 make for an last to the most wearing presidential election in American history , elector are blend in to postulate a drink .
Your local polling place might not be situated justly next to a taproom – a true predicament for the popular process – but luckily for you , there ’s a new interactive map that tail polling places across the country in relation to the nearest lacrimation hole .
To use it , simply plug in your name and address and rent the polling places abound . If you plan on voting in the first light , the map also crawls with coffee shops and places to lade up on bagel and donuts , a.k.a . the fuel of commonwealth . you could filter the datum according to java , food and drunkenness , too , making this mapping quite a ready to hand cock whether your precedence are imbibing liquor or ingesting caffeine .
Foursquare
The visualization comes from Foursquare – the company that initiate internet check - Immigration and Naturalization Service – and citizenry can employ the company ’s other app , Swarm , to earn a virtual “ I vote ” spikelet which they can ostensibly broadcast on societal media . Foursquare partnered with Voting Information Project and Mapbox to build the map , which is just part of the company ’s many endeavor to galvanise electoral enthusiasm through the New York City technical school community’s#TechTurnsOutinitiative .
The data is n’t quite complete though , as the states of Pennsylvania , South Carolina , New Hampshire , Vermont and Maine are n’t yet admit . Foursquare is partner with the Voting Information Project to update the mapping in actual - time however , so no one is omit from the most American of traditions – democracy and beer .
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Sam Blum is a News Staff Writer for Thrillist . He ’s also a martial arts and medicine nerd who appreciates a fine sandwich and precious hound . Find his clips in The Guardian , Rolling Stone , The A.V. Club and Vice . He ’s on Twitter@Blumnessmonster .
