Voting Day, Are the Kids Safe?

A voting Overheardian wonders about the security today:

Did you vote today?  At the middle school?  We walked in a side door, where a very nice woman with a “substitute teacher” badge on directed us … “down that hall take a left, then a left, then a right, then a right, then another right.  So off we went traipsing through MIS.  Absolutely no security.

UPDATE: I just received a message from Helen Williams and Richard Bohac. Bohac said he has 3 subs on various doors, a highly visible DARE officer and teachers on high alert. I’m not sure if it’s his voice or that people fear him but I feel like he’s got it under control.

By Merritt Patterson Mar. 2, 2010 | 11:23 am | 12 Comments | Comments RSS
12 comments to "Voting Day, Are the Kids Safe?"
  1. Maggie @ March 2, 2010 at 11:45 am
    Yes. The kids are safe.

  2. kmom @ March 2, 2010 at 12:46 pm
    It would be illegal to run a background check on voters.

  3. mainzer @ March 2, 2010 at 1:01 pm
    kmom, but do we have to put the polls in the schools?

  4. matt @ March 2, 2010 at 1:06 pm
    This clip will appear again.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh2sWSVRrmo

  5. Maggie @ March 2, 2010 at 1:12 pm
    Yawn.

  6. kmom @ March 2, 2010 at 2:58 pm
    As far back as I can remember there’s always been voting at schools. Has there ever been an incident of a voter harming a child? All these years, all these votes – could be literally a billion votes cast in schools over the years and no one harmed. I don’t see a reason to change the system. I think they have a much greater chance of being harmed by a trusted religious based counselor, minister, youth leader, priest – odds are much higher.

  7. A.B. @ March 2, 2010 at 3:42 pm
    @kmom–you are obviously not in charge of marketing the Raptor system to school districts nationwide.

  8. laurie @ March 2, 2010 at 3:51 pm
    Hey Maggie, if we bore you so much, don’t read the blog!

  9. bdad @ March 2, 2010 at 3:59 pm
    At Bradfield voting, there is very limited egress … in a side door to get to the gym, and back out. Eyes on you all the time.

  10. Maggie @ March 2, 2010 at 4:06 pm
    Wouldn’t miss this blog for the world.

  11. penny @ March 2, 2010 at 5:33 pm
    Does the school district get compensated for allowing the state, federal, local and county governments use the school property? If not, why not?

  12. pigskinnie @ March 3, 2010 at 9:42 pm
    UP Elementary voting was in the empty portables. Genius.

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