Thread: Bomb threat closes Madison polling site

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TUESDAY, Nov. 7, 2006, 11:34 a.m.
By Lisa Sink

Bomb threat closes Madison polling site
Madison - A bomb threat this morning at Madison East High School prompted the city to close its polling site there and relocate it, state Elections Board Executive Director Kevin Kennedy said.

Kennedy said Madison city officials might ask the Dane County Circuit Court to extend the voting hours for that site due to the time it was closed.

Details on the bomb threat and duration of time the poll was closed were not immediately available.

Kennedy said the state was told that poll workers sealed the ballots that had been cast before the bomb threat and transported them to the new site.

Signs at Madison East were posted telling voters the site was closed and where to go.

"I'm sure that there have been voters who have been inconvenienced by this," Kennedy said.

He said while he has heard of bomb threats disrupting and relocating polling sites nationally, he could not recall it happening before in Wisconsin.

All municipalities are supposed to have emergency plans in place to relocate sites in case of natural disasters, floods, fires, terrorism or bomb threats, Kennedy said.

I am hearing things happening at Polling stations this year that I have never heard before in my life. Except for perhaps Iraq or Mexico or some other 3rd world country.

Originally Posted by Charlesoakisland

I am hearing things happening at Polling stations this year that I have never heard before in my life. Except for perhaps Iraq or Mexico or some other 3rd world country.

Welcome to the former US.