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Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.panix2.panix.com!not-for-mail From: jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: OT Politics Re: Three Body Problem Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2024 13:19:33 -0000 (UTC) Organization: Public Access Networks Corp. Message-ID: <vb1pl5$r0$2@reader1.panix.com> References: <ee1c97625081058543bc892d2bdcc245@www.novabbs.com> <lj1e91FrjogU1@mid.individual.net> <vaj8ko$2lkvo$1@epsilon3.eternal-september.org> <qu28djdi31mfhg0rhgoh9ivbk525e4b97e@4ax.com> Injection-Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2024 13:19:33 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader1.panix.com; posting-host="panix2.panix.com:166.84.1.2"; logging-data="864"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Bytes: 2718 Lines: 36 In article <qu28djdi31mfhg0rhgoh9ivbk525e4b97e@4ax.com>, The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote: >On Mon, 26 Aug 2024 20:03:20 -0500, "Jay E. Morris" ><morrisj@epsilon3.comcon> wrote: > >>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. > >In Canada polling places used to be commonly in elementary school >gymnasiums. In 2020-2021 most schools said no to the electoral >authorities ("we've got to protect our kids!") with the result that in >our 2021 provincial election most polling places were in church halls >or vacant storefronts in shopping malls. Until the most recent by-election, I'd never worked a polling place in a school. It was mostly churches. In 2021 it was a fire hall, which had the odd consequence that my day started with me dragging a body out of the polling area. It was a training dummy but it would have blocked traffic. As it was, there wasn't room for all of the necessary stations with the mandated spacing, so I spent the whole day doing covid tracing for cranky rustics* at a table outside. The by-election was ... interesting because the school in question is controlled access. The DRO really didn't want to have to station someone by the front door and it took a lot of arguing to convince him that the auditorium fire door was not a workable alternative. The step was knee-high, which would have made it unworkable for anyone with a mobility issue.... * Who spent the whole day bitching about what a waste of skin their current MP was... before re-electing him in a landslide. -- My reviews can be found at http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/ My tor pieces at https://www.tor.com/author/james-davis-nicoll/ My Dreamwidth at https://james-davis-nicoll.dreamwidth.org/ My patreon is at https://www.patreon.com/jamesdnicoll