VOTE
Hammer Museum at UCLA The Hammer Museum and the Skirball Cultural Center are polling places this election day. This is part of a nationwide trend, with such institutions as the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Metropolitan Museum, and the American Museum of Natural History participating. Swing state voters can cast ballots at the High Museum of Art (Atlanta), the University of Michigan Art Museum, and the Phoenix Art Museum. Schools and churches are more often used as polling places. The venue may not be neutral, suggested a 2008 Stanford study . Researchers found that volunteers were more likely to vote for a school funding initiative when cued with pictures of schools; to reject a stem cell initiative when cued with images of churches. Now known as the polling place priming effect, it led to a 2011 legal analysis asking "Is voting in churches (or anywhere else) unconstitutional?" Accept the polling place priming effect, and museum voting ought to be favorable to candidates a
