Re: OT Politics Re: Three Body Problem

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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