Basically, yes. Voting happens in churches, schools, and government buildings, which all have standard safety detectors. Furthermore, the fact voting is distributed across so many different kinds of locations means that it would be much harder for there to be a conspiracy to place faulty detectors in polling places.
this post was submitted on 18 May 2025
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I agree with that second bit, but thinking of all the places I've voted in life I wouldn't imagine detectors in most of them. We hardly use gas at all around here, all electric, can't see how anything else would be a CO source.
I mean, voting booths aren't airtight, you could just have one for the polling place
I haven't voted in person for several years, but all the polling places I remember had all the doors open to the outside air. A basketball gym, a church side-hall, someone's home garage. And the booths are just curtained frames. But then again, I live in Los Angeles so it's not freezing in November. Maybe it's different in Minnesota.
...here we just have touchscreen kiosks set side-by-side along open tables, no privacy other than the LCD field-of-view...
How odd! Everywhere I've voted in OK, IL and FL had pretty much the same setup, basically a 1/8th scale, standing office cubicle. You got me thinking, I'd be surprised to see anything else!
...you know, now that i'm really thinking about it, there may be a token 12"x18" privacy screen set on the table between displays, but it doesn't impede adjacent displays from your field of view at all: it's more about the suggestion of privacy than actual functionality...
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.
I believe any such regulations would be on a state by state basis, though I doubt any are actually enacted.