Schools worry about student safety when their facilities are used as polling places

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At Mount Washington Elementary School in Kentucky’s Bullitt County, tiny kids excitedly lined up for the bus. Overhead, a loudspeaker blared names of last-minute car riders. It’s organized chaos.

In the middle of it all, Troy Wood, head of operations for the local school system, demonstrated how voters would have to navigate this same hallway during early voting.

“They’d roll through these double doors, walk through this main lobby area and access the gymnasium that way,” Wood said, spinning around and pointing out each intersection. “We’d have to shut off these two main hallways if students were on site.”

Read more at NPR.

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