Many Connecticut towns use schools as polling places, and on Tuesday, some schools will be open while voters take part in the presidential primary.
"On Election Day, we were off from school!", recalled Roxanne Naccarato.
Not anymore and not in Wallingford, where police held a lockdown drill before school let out today at Moses Y Brown School, for prekindergarten to second grade.
When Wallingford votes, it uses polling places in elementary schools and the schools stay open.
"I guess if that's what they got to do, that's what they do, right?" Rick Naccarato said.
"People coming into the building while my children are in the building?" wondered Linda Curtis. "That would bother me."
"I think it's a very good idea," said Paul Jackson. "It gives the community a lot of access. I think it's something that we need."
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One parent, Brandon Flyte, hopes Wallingford police will be back in school Tuesday.
"You don't know the people that are going in there. Some of 'em don't even get ID'd," he said.
Actually ID is required to vote in Connecticut polling places. But just as Wallingford is flying flags high downtown, this year's Connecticut presidential primaries have high importance to the candidates, the most importance for almost 25 years.
