islandpacket.com | Polling places inside gates not an automatic problem, says opponent of bill to prohibit them: "Here in southern Beaufort County, we've been voting inside our gated communities for many years now. We can't recall any problems associated with that. Most people who vote at these locations live in the communities. Election officials don't seem to go out of their way to locate polling places behind private gates if a location outside the gates would work as well...One of the bill's sponsors says that when polling places are in gated communities, there's a chance voters who live outside the gates might not be able to get in to vote."
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That's Hilton Head, SC, which is basically wall to wall (pun intended) gated communities. How would a fellow who lives inside a gated community even be aware that voters were trying to get inside to vote, but being turned away? Flags, ambulances, ice cream trucks, process servers, realtors, and apparently voters have been excluded from these places. And if you look at the story below, all that security doesn't always prevent bad things from happening.
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