Texas Republican Seeks Ban on School Polls in the Name of ‘School Safety’

Texas Rep. Carrie Isaac wants to keep democracy out of Texas schools.

Isaac, a freshman Republican, filed a 124-word bill last week to ban polling stations at any “higher education institution,” and on Tuesday she said she’s working on a bill to ban polling stations at public and K-12 charter schools. , too much.

“We must do everything we can to make our school campuses as safe as possible,” she said in a press release, referring to the Uvalde elementary school shooting last year and the 2017 university fatal knife attack. “I have experienced firsthand the heightened emotions that often come up at the polls, and I won’t wait for the violence to start.”

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