Posted on 01/24/2012 8:45:37 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
MADISON, Wis.— The Madison School District wants background checks on any poll workers in school buildings on election days.
The city is looking into the time and cost required for background checks on more than 2,000 poll workers. City clerk Maribeth Witzel-Behl says they also need to settle on the criteria that would be needed to pass a background check.
Currently, poll workers take an oath and attend a training session. Never before has the school district asked for background checks. Assistant superintendent Erick Kass tells the State Journal (http://bit.ly/xWFr1e ) the district is trying to improve school safety based on a recent security assessment.
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aren’t Dems the same people who want to let felons vote?
yeah, I’ll be that’ll be a tough background check:
can you fog a mirror ? you pass!
In Michigan a new teacher’s union organizing manual just came out. I’ve only scanned over it but teachers unions are teachers unions and I’m sure the tactics are the same.
(pdf) http://www.mea.org/bfcl/pdf/BFCL-CrisisPlanning.pdf
Unless you are a known Republican!
In my town (Mequon) parents at one school objected to the city using the school as a polling place. They were afraid that child molesters coming to the polls to vote might target their children. (Of course, child molesters are not allowed to vote.) So, they moved our polling place to a church which was more centrally located anyway (and a much niced facility). Then the atheists objected that people might gaze up on cross when entering the polls. We are still at the church...for now.
in other words, they need to figure out how to keep republicans and other walker backers out of the process..
The education union was also using elections as an excuse to get an extra vacation day so their people could work to elect more Democrats. "We don't want to endanger the chilluns by voters constantly walking or driving in and out of the school parking lot," you know.
A side benefit was that the pastors who run the local churches were able to prohibit candidates from putting signs all along the driveway leading up to the parking lot. Hell, if you don't know who you are going to vote for before you reach the parking lot of the polling place, why should your vote matter anyway?
Why is it that this tsaggering irony never seems to dawn on the corrupt MSM?
Why is it that this tsaggering irony never seems to dawn on the corrupt MSM?
For the same reason fish don’t realize they’re wet;its just who they are.
It’s probably just a criminal background check because most schools now days have to have on if you’re going to be working on campus. Fine by me. I’d rather not have some known perv lurking around the hallways and restrooms or getting “lost” somewhere.
In Connecticut where school buildings are used for voting, the kids fervent day off. It’s a good practice as it minimizes the voting impact of the teachers union. Most of them won’t come anywhere near the school if they’re not paid to be there.
Those dead people who vote seem to work well for the unions and democrats. Maybe the dearly departed would make good poll workers as well.
If they were really concerned about the safety of the children, they’d stop letting us use the schools as polling places. (My community uses city hall and the fire stations.)
Background checks cost money and have to be contracted out to an agency that is allowed to access police and other records. It’s not something just anyone can do. Extra costs add up when you count all the poll workers and the poll observers the political parties send in.
Schools and other public buildings have been used since the 1800s all over Wisconsin. Show me any problem as to assaults on children or people in schools on election days and I bet you won’t find any or maybe one suspected attempt over the past 20 years. Most school polling places are near the entrance and sort of blocked off from the rest of the school corridors. These school sissies are looking for a problem that doesn’t exist
No. BTDT, our school makes the person fill out the request form with $20 and the local cops do it.
I see nothing wrong with using the schools as polling places. I think it teaches the kids good citizenship by example. Have you ever heard of a child being molested, or kidnapped because an election was going on in a school?
As taxpayers, we own the schools and should have free use of them any time we want, as long as it is for legitimate community purposes.
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