DV Poll Results: What should be done to protect South Dakota legislative pages?

Here are the results of last week's Dakota Voice poll: What should be done to protect South Dakota legislative pages?

• Background checks on page host families 3.13%
• Background checks on legislators 9.38%
• Pages should never be in a legislators quarters 18.75%
• Pages should never be alone with an adult 9.38%
• Nothing new; recent problems were familial, not page-program related 25%
• End the page program 34.38%
  

I hope the top answer isn't what happens. I think the page program is a good opportunity for young people to learn about and participate in our government. The problems we've seen lately occurred between people who knew each other outside of their legislative duties, and the incidents could have happened anywhere, not just when the legislature was in session.

The new poll is now in the upper left corner: What's the best way for the US to achieve energy independence.

Thanks to those who voted in last week's poll!