> 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 s

> 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.