Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lynn McGuire Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: OT Politics Re: Three Body Problem Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2024 18:03:35 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <96f3bb30-2134-0d32-a3ec-48f29580be82@example.net> <0e09c941-57a4-36e4-e04e-cf34eb1811b5@example.net> <0p74cj9ci0fi7gdq0n6ff0focttrmpg50b@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2024 01:03:36 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="a292653336b95676272e1c51ca9b451f"; logging-data="3330472"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19Yo4w9dDIrG39jXF2/MQm1Qhsuj0XhgN8=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:fsZBtCtLzi6BDxQ/qeZktZbblis= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2954 On 8/26/2024 11:59 PM, Robert Woodward wrote: > In article , > "Jay E. Morris" wrote: > >> On 8/25/2024 2:16 PM, Chris Buckley wrote: >>> Many things would have to change here. Security procedures require >>> months of preparation now. The voting/tallying period is now approaching >>> a month between early voting and delivery of mail ballots. It certainly >>> won't allow a quick second round. >>> >>> Locally, all schools are closed on election day and even the day before >>> this year due to schools being polling places. It's tough to have an >>> indeterminate calendar for schools. >> >> Here, southwest Texas, I don't know of a polling place that's in a >> school. Churches, fire stations, city hall, county courthouse but no >> schools. > > I have a vague recollection of my father voting at a church (in 1956?). > As for me in the past 50 years, I have voted at two different schools > and a building that I think was a senior center (each many times). I > can't remember what the first two polling locations were. Before The Koof, we voted in the nursing home down by the freeway. Now we vote in a church. Lynn