To the Plattsburgh, Saranac Lake and Chazy school boards , which make voting easier than in other districts and easier than it has to be, by law. But voters complained that, because so many of them drop their children off at school in the early morning, it would be so much easier to vote at the same time. The board heard the entreaty and moved the start time back to 7 a.m. Saranac Lake did the same, and Chazy opened the polls at 9.
Voters can now fulfill their duty on the way to work or while taking their kids to school.
In other districts, long lines await voters in the evening, after work. That s responsive administration in these three disticts. To all the citizens of school districts who didn t vote last Tuesday. Look at AuSable Valley Central School District, for example, where the budget was rejected by a skinny 19 votes. Only 741 voters decided the future of those schools.