If the meetings are held in public buildings it may be against rental policy. Also, there would undoubtedly be prior big messes and brouhahas at entrance-ways when attempting to card everyone entering, including those with fake addresses who want to get in to perform their mini-riots.
Solution # 2...."limit questioners to in-district attendees?"
See above comment. Also, no one thinks that you can keep in-district or out-of-district plants and disruptors from rising to ask questions or make comments with or without permission from the dais. They WILL be heard despite any attempt to gavel them down.
I don't know the answer to the spread of infiltrated town hall meetings yet. Each individual elected office-holder sponsoring the town meeting has to make his/her own decision whether to continue the practice based on the tenor of the district, his/her ability and desire to handle the disruptions, screeching, cat-calling and sign-waving...and, of course, his/her own personal internal fortitude.
Leni
Hmm on other factor to consider is safety concerns—some pols have had to be escorted by security after town halls.
I wonder if they continue doing them, like at Trump Rallies, folks will need to get tickets and to provide name, address, etc. Trump rallies were at public buildings...
No easy solution~they may have to move to the telephone town hall method I mentioned.
Just a shame to have these radicals hijack public meetings—especially in a state like Iowa?!?! Tho I noted the location of Ernst’s town hall was only a 3.5 hour drive from Chicago.