Poll Workers Ask Mom To Leave Due to Crying Child: Report

DECATUR, GA — Poll workers asked a DeKalb County mom to leave a polling place Thursday before she could cast a ballot because she had a crying child with her, according to a media report.

Jennifer Fair told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that she was asked to take her 2-year-old daughter outside a downtown Decatur polling location where early voting was taking place. Officials said that her daughter was distracting other voters.

Fair, a mother of three, returned Fridaywith her husband to cast a ballot, but she said Thursday's incident "made her question whether the state law is friendly to voters with small children," the Journal-Constitution reported.

Georgia law gives poll wrkers broad discretion to determine when children distract voters. But a Democratic Party official criticized the move, saying that she brings her 2-year-old son into the voting booth.

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