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From: jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll)
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Subject: Re: OT Politics Re: Three Body Problem
Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2024 13:19:33 -0000 (UTC)
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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. 
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