Texas Republican seeks a ban on polling places at schools in the name of ‘school safety’
Citing “heightened emotions” at polling sites, a Texas legislator says voting is too dangerous to do on school campuses.
By Jane C. Timm, NBC News
(WDIV)
Texas state Rep. Carrie Isaac wants to keep democracy out of Texas schools.
Isaac, a freshman Republican, filed a 124-word bill to bar polling places at any “institution of higher education” last week, and on Tuesday, she said she’s working on a bill to bar polling places at K-12 public and charter schools, too.
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“We must do everything we can to make our school campuses as safe as possible,” she said in a release, mentioning the shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde last year and a deadly knife attack at a university in 2017.“I have experienced firsthand the heightened emotions that often occur at polling locations and I will not wait for more violence to act.”