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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: OT Politics Re: Three Body Problem
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2024 18:03:35 -0500
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On 8/26/2024 11:59 PM, Robert Woodward wrote:
> In article <vaj8ko$2lkvo$1@epsilon3.eternal-september.org>,
>   "Jay E. Morris" <morrisj@epsilon3.comcon> 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