Fort Bend County has active SWAT situation at key voting site

[Gothmog]

There is a SWAT situation that shut down a key Democratic precinct in Fort Bend County. http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Armed-man-in-Houston-home-holding-SWAT-team-at-bay-5287880.php?cmpid=hpbn. We think that they will extend voting hours. Right now, voters can get to the polling location

[Gothmog]

1. They extended voting hours

The election office added two hours for voters

[MagickMuffin]

2. I suppose voting at schools could possibly pose a risk for polling locations

I, however, do not want to operate out of fear, but this could start happening more frequently if agents of provocateurs decided to be mean about the elections and letting Democrats vote. I would hope that this would not happen, but after yesterday and working as the Election Judge and having to listen to the republicans (one woman in particular, didn't think we had the RIGHT to be there) nothing of their ilk would surprise me. Oh and just to be clear about the rude woman, the Election Judge told her we ALL have the right to have our voices heard and apologized to us after the woman left.

Perhaps we should rethink where we hold elections. I don't like and have never liked voting in churches. One time I had to vote in a substation of a police dept., I certainly didn't like that. Of course I like the idea of having schools as polling locations, but this issue needs to be addressed.

We now have a wonderful polling location that was once a public library that is now owned by the city as a civic center but leased out to the Tarrant County College.