At least one thing that I know was not considered by the PWSS board was where we would move the voting to. Where is there room to have the additional wards voting in the city? They also did not consider the impact to the people of the area that walk to voting and the need of adequate parking near the polling place. There are several ways to address the security issues at hand other than just end the practice of voting at a school. It is eventide that the board took the easy way out and let City hall worry about the impact of their failure to lead. This type of poorly thought out emotional reaction is exactly what these people that pull off these attacks want, for us to change our lives and live constantly in fear and letting that fear dictate our decision making process rather than our intellect.

Defective thinking in other districts does not excuse it here, they may have different circumstances in play. I am fine with voting at places other than schools and there are places that should work. I do not know what requirements exist for locating a polling place outside of the particular ward(s), but I expect any place that is chosen is going to make some people unhappy.

Yup, this is an over reaction, and should not be catered to, although a few years back in Vegas saw that they had polling places in shopping malls. The more places the better to cut down on long lines.

Here is another issue I could frankly care less about. We have other fish to fry other than where the voting will occur.

I will say this though, dropping off my kids at school will be way easier if the polls are somewhere else. Other than that... *shrug*