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From the Liveblog of Thursday, December 12, 2019

As Brits vote, some are doing it in a laundromat, others in a pub

12 December 2019, 10:38 pm

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AP offers an adorable glimpse at some of the quirkier polling sites at which Britons are voting today in their general election.

Wensleydale Railway employee Teresa Chapman is pictured with the Polar Express in the background, next to a polling station in a railway carriage as voters go to the polls, in Leeming Bar, North Yorkshire, England, December 12, 2019. (Danny Lawson/PA via AP)

A man dressed as Father Christmas enters his grotto at the Dunster Tithe Barn near Minehead, Somerset, England which is being used as a polling station in the 2019 general election, December 12, 2019. (Ben Birchall/PA via AP)

A presiding officer and a clerk drink cups of tea next to heaters to keep warm as they sit inside their polling station at Ace Laundrette in Oxford, England, December 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

A sign is seen near a Christmas tree outside the polling station at the Fox & Hounds pub in the hamlet of Christmas Common, in Oxfordshire, England, December 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

A view inside a polling station at the White Horse Inn in Priors Dean, Hampshire, also known by locals as the ‘Pub with no name,’ as voting starts in Britain’s general election, December 12, 2019. (Andrew Matthews/PA via AP)

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