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If you're banned from the public library its not a big deal. If your voting site is moved to the library, then it becomes a big deal. This became an issue in

by VLM 5y ago

If you're banned from the public library its not a big deal. If your voting site is moved to the library, then it becomes a big deal. This became an issue in my state (or maybe larger area) WRT convicted pedos and similar convictions being able to vote, being legally barred from being within X feet of schools which are open, and voting sites being at schools. Solution was the kids get voting day off, which hopefully will increase voter participation if someday everyone gets voting day off.

pasc1878 5y ago
Isn't that normal. How can you have a voting place where normal use is ongoing? I am from UK and many voting places are schools and the whole school has the day off. I think this has been true for over a hundred years.
- VLM 5y ago
  Utilization of the gym/community room/theater stage is never 100% anyway so on election Tuesday we'd spend a very late in the season gym class playing softball outside instead of field hockey in the gym, or stagecraft class would cohabitate with the wood shop for a day thus leaving the auditorium open. Because of various long term migration patterns at least in the USA we also have districts that are practically emptied out despite having huge schools so you could give the voters an entire floor if needed, and other districts that are so packed I know personally of two schools that have two gymnasiums so you just dedicate one gym for one day. School day off has been growing in the USA and I look forward to voting days being a holiday someday. Its a bit tricky because voter participation rates are low in the USA and some voters are uninformed enough to actually think we only have an election every four years, LOL, whereas its more like twice a year plus special elections where I live. Of course if voting could change anything it would be banned, and we're replacing philosophical politics with identity politics so soon all that'll matter at voting time is the genetics of your parents. Already at that point with some demographics. Still, its interesting.
kova12 5y ago
Well, you can't expect facebook to enable banned accounts for a single day, so that solution is off the table. Also, analogy with pedos is somewhat flawed: there is an actual reason why people don't want them around schools. Nobody justifies to people why some accounts are banned by facebook/google/etc. Most likely because they are no threat to society, but inconvenient to facebook/google/etc and their agenda. That's equivalent to mayor who dislikes you banning you from going to grocery store and giving no recourse or reasoning.
- VLM 5y ago
  > there is an actual reason why people don't want them around schools Agreed, but the real point is there's a geographic location you can't legally go to for some valid reason that the supreme court insists you must have access to on election day, regardless of the other reasons. Numerous weird corner cases could be imagined; soon to be ex-wife teaches at your local polling place and your lawyer insists/demands you go no-contact or even worse the judge orders you to no-contact her, now you can't vote. One novelty that affects my kids is "in the old days" it was a city tradition to visit your old elementary school on the first day of school, but now its time to control people by fear thus terrorists are hiding behind every tree and fences everywhere and lockdowns and you're not allowed on school property without a guest badge and background screen or the cops will get called which does impact voting operations quite a bit compared to the 80s when they'd literally prop the doors open and be friendly if you wandered in. For a long time they we were just "oh well" you can always vote at city hall or vote by mail, but there was some kind of court case either locally or larger scale and now we shut down the schools entirely so they're not legally schools for one day.

by VLM 5y ago

pasc1878 5y ago

Isn't that normal. How can you have a voting place where normal use is ongoing? I am from UK and many voting places are schools and the whole school has the day off. I think this has been true for over a hundred years.

VLM 5y ago
Utilization of the gym/community room/theater stage is never 100% anyway so on election Tuesday we'd spend a very late in the season gym class playing softball outside instead of field hockey in the gym, or stagecraft class would cohabitate with the wood shop for a day thus leaving the auditorium open. Because of various long term migration patterns at least in the USA we also have districts that are practically emptied out despite having huge schools so you could give the voters an entire floor if needed, and other districts that are so packed I know personally of two schools that have two gymnasiums so you just dedicate one gym for one day. School day off has been growing in the USA and I look forward to voting days being a holiday someday. Its a bit tricky because voter participation rates are low in the USA and some voters are uninformed enough to actually think we only have an election every four years, LOL, whereas its more like twice a year plus special elections where I live. Of course if voting could change anything it would be banned, and we're replacing philosophical politics with identity politics so soon all that'll matter at voting time is the genetics of your parents. Already at that point with some demographics. Still, its interesting.

kova12 5y ago

Well, you can't expect facebook to enable banned accounts for a single day, so that solution is off the table. Also, analogy with pedos is somewhat flawed: there is an actual reason why people don't want them around schools. Nobody justifies to people why some accounts are banned by facebook/google/etc. Most likely because they are no threat to society, but inconvenient to facebook/google/etc and their agenda. That's equivalent to mayor who dislikes you banning you from going to grocery store and giving no recourse or reasoning.

VLM 5y ago
> there is an actual reason why people don't want them around schools Agreed, but the real point is there's a geographic location you can't legally go to for some valid reason that the supreme court insists you must have access to on election day, regardless of the other reasons. Numerous weird corner cases could be imagined; soon to be ex-wife teaches at your local polling place and your lawyer insists/demands you go no-contact or even worse the judge orders you to no-contact her, now you can't vote. One novelty that affects my kids is "in the old days" it was a city tradition to visit your old elementary school on the first day of school, but now its time to control people by fear thus terrorists are hiding behind every tree and fences everywhere and lockdowns and you're not allowed on school property without a guest badge and background screen or the cops will get called which does impact voting operations quite a bit compared to the 80s when they'd literally prop the doors open and be friendly if you wandered in. For a long time they we were just "oh well" you can always vote at city hall or vote by mail, but there was some kind of court case either locally or larger scale and now we shut down the schools entirely so they're not legally schools for one day.