Schools as polling places?

[JayC]

Jonnin-While I, and many others, share your obvious flustration, it is the law. Our HCP is only a defense against the crime IF you are following the laws pertaining to it. I don't see much hope for changing it any time soon as we can't even get a decent "parking lot"bill through the legislature. On a better note, it appears more and more county electrion officials are moving the polling places out of schools due to security concerns by the school, parking issues, etc. Unfortunately that isn't always possible, particularly in rural counties where building options are limited.

Well I don't believe the parking lot bill is anymore constitutional than the legislature's current violations of the TN constitution regarding carry permits. But that is another discussion...

Here you have the right to vote, which is a protected right... and the government selecting polling locations, that deny some % of HCP the right to carry, while allowing others to carry while voting. Polling places are not no carry zones, but placing them inside a school makes some polling places off limits.

There is no equal protection under the law in this case... by placing my polling location in a school, the state sets up road blocks in allowing me to vote, that other HCP permit holders who live across the street from me (who have a different polling location) don't have.

Edited March 9, 2012 by JayC

[tnhawk]

All the polling places stick these 'no guns' signs up in Shelby County. They are not required to but they do. A lot of the places you can see the signs before you walk in, some you can't really notice them. It is silly that Shelby County election commission pulls that when it is not necessary under state law.

They also post signs that require cell phones to be turned off at polling places in shelby county. There is no valid reason to require this.