Virginia officials in the state’s largest jurisdiction claim the possibility of violence by Donald Trump’s supporters is big enough to close schools used for primary voting March 1.
Fairfax County Electoral Board Secretary Katherine Hanley, a Democrat, said a Republican Party loyalty rule may spark altercations. Primary voters must affirm their party affiliation before receiving a ballot.
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“If you say: ‘I don’t want to do it,’ I have to say: ‘You don’t get a ballot,’” Hanley told the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, the Washington Post reported. “That’s about as contentious as anything we can possibly be doing in a polling place on Election Day.”
Hanley chaired the county Board of Supervisors from 1995 to 2003 and later served in the cabinet of Democrat Gov. Tim Kaine.
County supervisors voted 9 to 1 to ask school officials to cancel classes. Closing all 167 schools in Fairfax would affect 180,000 students. Roughly 250,000 voters are expected to vote.
The Trump campaign blasted concerns over students’ safety as “preposterous.”
“This is just an attempt by a Democrat and probably some establishment Republicans to malign and disparage Trump supporters and also to characterize conservative speech as hate speech,” Trump’s Virginia chairman Corey Stewart told the newspaper.
Fairfax County Superintendent Karen Garza sent an email to parents on Tuesday saying there are currently “no plans to close schools” on March 1. She said the officials’ vote came as a “complete surprise,” the Post reported.
Trump, the Republican front-runner since August, received more good news on Monday when a Quinnipiac University poll showed him leading with Iowa caucus-goers. The billionaire captures 31 percent support compared to Cruz’s 29 percent.
Quinnipiac questioned 602 likely Republican caucus-goers in Iowa between Jan. 5-10. The survey’s margin of error is plus or minus 4 percentage points.
(Photo: Quinnipiac University)
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