dullbananas (Joseph Silva)@lemmy.ca to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 24 hours agoIn the U.S., are all voting booth areas required to have carbon monoxide detectors?message-squaremessage-square26fedilinkarrow-up152arrow-down16
arrow-up146arrow-down1message-squareIn the U.S., are all voting booth areas required to have carbon monoxide detectors?dullbananas (Joseph Silva)@lemmy.ca to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 24 hours agomessage-square26fedilink
minus-squareprocrastitron@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·8 hours agoIn short, no. Voting in the U.S. is run by the individual states, and each one sets their own rules and policies. The federal government does set some minimum rules that only apply to federal elections, but those rules don’t even require the use of voting booths: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2024-title11-vol1/pdf/CFR-2024-title11-vol1.pdf
minus-squareprocrastitron@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 hours agoAdding on to this; I’d be very surprised if there was a locality within the U.S. that didn’t require every building to have carbon monoxide detectors, but again, voting doesn’t even have to occur within a building.
In short, no.
Voting in the U.S. is run by the individual states, and each one sets their own rules and policies.
The federal government does set some minimum rules that only apply to federal elections, but those rules don’t even require the use of voting booths: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2024-title11-vol1/pdf/CFR-2024-title11-vol1.pdf
Adding on to this; I’d be very surprised if there was a locality within the U.S. that didn’t require every building to have carbon monoxide detectors, but again, voting doesn’t even have to occur within a building.