Word: precinct
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Officials programmed the computer with painstaking care, matching the national ID number of every potential Salvadoran voter with 6,598 polling tables at locations around the country. The procedure was considered tamperproof: at each table, citizens were supposed to hand over their ID cards, to prevent double-voting. A precinct secretary would then look up the ID number on the computerized voting list, mark it, and hand out a ballot emblazoned with the party emblems of the competing candidates. After the voter marked his ballot and placed it in a transparent Lucite box (to forestall accusations of ballot-box stuffing...
...suspect. His father, Gordon, was the soft-spoken managing editor of the local afternoon paper; his family, respected residents of the city's South Hill district. Extroverted, with a live-in girlfriend, flashy cars and mercantile schemes of fabulous marketing strategies, Coe fit no precinct's violent-crime profile. But his private life might have come from a chapter of Krafft-Ebing...
...Precinct 8-3 Lawrence Hall --Congregational Church, 11 Garden St. (Mason St. entrance...
...Precinct 8-4 Cronkhite Hall --Parish House, 3 Church...
...Precinct 8-5 29 Garden St., 12 Walker St., 38 Walker St. and 60 Walker St. --Harvard Epworth Church, 1555 Mass...