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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are the kids voting?  If not, they should be in school.  It's a Tuesday.

(And we have lived in plentty of places where kids go to school at the same time as people vote at the school.  It's not an issue.)[/quote]

-signed, The Let's Make It As Hard as Possible to Vote person. 
Let me guess who your party is?[/quote]

How does having your kids at school make it harder to vote?[/quote]

Finding enough places to vote, for one. Schools are a perfect, central location for most and there are a lot of them, so people don't have to wait hours to vote like the do in some places. . 
If the kids are home, you just bring with you. I always did.

OR we could allow easy, early voting. Vote by mail. Without any bit--ing and moaning and then it won't matter about "election day." But the GOP is the one trying to undermine those things even though they've been used successfully in some states and for the military. [/quote]

You are going in circles.  You can have kids at school AND let people vote at the school.  In the (major northeastern) city we lived in until moving here, our polling place was in a school and the school was always in session.[/quote]

In some cases you can.

I used to work in a charter school in DC that was a polling place, and we stayed open.   But the building was built with the idea of renting space to outside groups in mind.  There were floor to ceiling gates that closed, and the multipurpose room and a set of bathrooms were completely sealed off.  No one was sharing hallways or bathrooms with kids.

Plus we had a lot of parking.

A lot of high schools are built that way.  The gym can be sealed off, so they're open for a basketball game with lots of fans, but there's no access to the rest.  But I've never seen a regular public school like that. 
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