Sachem board leans to move school-day voting out of elementary schools and consolidate to one polling location

The Sachem Board of Education signaled majority support Aug. 27 to consolidate the district’s 10 elementary-school polling sites into one centralized polling location and asked staff to prepare a resolution for the board to vote on at its next meeting. Allison Florio, district staff presenter, told trustees the district currently uses 10 elementary schools as polling places and outlined three alternatives: one polling location (used for the June 2024 revote), two polling locations (for example, the two high schools), or three middle-school sites. “At the current moment…we are using our 10 elementary schools,” Florio said. She cited safety and cost as the principal reasons for reducing school-based polling. Why it matters: Florio said a single site would reduce staff…