School Polling Sites Raise Safety Concerns
Security concerns have led a small but increasing number of school districts and counties to move polling sites off school campuses.
Seven of the 12 schools in Ohio’s 6,800-student Gahanna-Jefferson district, for example, will no longer double as polling places after educators and parents successfully petitioned the local board of elections earlier this year to make the change.
In Tippecanoe County, Ind., an election official recently said that she aims to switch some of the county’s 81 election sites from schools to...
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