Word: neighborism
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According to Teresa Neighbor, the executive director of the Cambridge Election Commission, unofficial results—not including some provisional and overseas ballots—indicate that 41,712 Cambridge voters cast ballots in the 2004 general election, or nearly 88 percent of active voters. In 2000, 40,317 Cambridge voters cast ballots for an 83 percent rate...
...Neighbor said polling locations increased their staffing levels 15 percent over the last presidential election in anticipation of turnout rates as high as 90 percent...
...tallying of Cambridge votes, which are processed by optical scanning machines, went smoothly at Cambridge Senior Center, according to Neighbor...
Instead of going to a hotly contested neighbor state, about 15 volunteers from the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) made the shorter trek to nearby Dorchester yesterday to monitor polls and encourage local voting...
...mattered much who won. But this campaign has turned out to be a passion play, with millions more people prepared to paper their yards with signs or make calls at night or write a check to a candidate for the first time ever or offer to drive an elderly neighbor to the polls. Given the questions on the table--war and peace, freedom and safety--it ought to be a relief to see so many Americans come out of their little gated tribal compounds and engage in the fateful debate, hand to hand, door to door...