I don't understand why when there is an election so many schools are automatically closed for the day. Working parents are left to either take holidays or pay for child care (additional cost for a lot of people across even 1 school). Also children miss out on days education and distrupts school planning, many schools had to reschedule christmas plays etc which were due yesterday.
Surely with such advanced technology voting could b done on line, obviously there would b setting up costs to this but long term would b more economical. No paying people to sit in polling stations (schools!) manually checking off names, nobody counting little pieces of paper after, less likely to have mistakes in counting!
Or if that's too advanced for some, what about using community centres or church halls. In the village where I vote the school is closed as used for polling station, however community centre remains vacant.
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Why schools closed to be used for polling stations?
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jessyjo2 · 13/12/2019 12:35
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