Alexandria’s City Council will soon decide on moving a polling place that’s been active since Aug. 27, 1963.
That’s just one day before the historic civil rights March on Washington. For 63 years, the Blessed Sacrament Precinct at Blessed Sacrament Church (1427 W. Braddock Road) has been the polling place for parts of central Alexandria on primary and election days. City staff will ask City Council at its meeting tonight (June 9) to send the matter to its public hearing docket set for June 13.
If approved by City Council on June 13, the new polling place will be Christ the King Anglican Church (1801 N. Quaker Lane), with no changes to existing boundaries. The new polling place is .06 miles away and would be renamed North Quaker Precinct.
Earlier this year, the church administration informed city election officials that it no longer wanted to be a voting location after the Feb. 10 special election, according to the city. Christ the King Anglican Church had served as the precinct’s polling place for the April 21 special election on an emergency basis.
“On April 27, 2026, the Alexandria Electoral Board voted unanimously to recommend relocating the Blessed Sacrament polling place to Christ the King Anglican Church, with no changes to the precinct boundaries,” city staff said in a memo. “In making its recommendations to City Council, the Electoral Board was primarily concerned with ensuring that the voting location conforms to legal requirements, has suitable voting facilities and those voting facilities can be fully accessible.”
The city estimates it will spend $3,100 on mailers informing affected voters of the change.
