Word: precinct
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Center City Philadelphia, members of the election watchdog group The Committee of 70 discussed their main worry this busy Election Day: running out of paper ballots. Word was coming in from all over the area that poll workers were not familiar with a federal court decision last week requiring precincts to make paper ballots available in the case of a machine breakdown. Worse, there were only about 100 paper ballots pre-set at each precinct, so places with serious machine problems in the morning faced running...
...city's most overcrowded precinct - in the heart of the bustling Chinatown - the lunchtime line snaked far around the corner of the block at the Chinese Christian Church at 10th and Spring streets. Easily a hundred people waited in line as a cold, and previously unpredicted, rain began to fall. The precinct was supposed to have only around 1,200 voters on the rolls but wound up this year with more than 4,000. Christy Kam, 26, a dance instructor, waited in line for more than an hour to cast her first-ever vote, only to discover that...
...campaign specifically excluded from its monitoring precincts the African-American neighborhoods expected to vote overwhelmingly for Obama. In gauging voting activity, Oliver said, the campaign factored in each precinct's early voting and absentee balloting. The campaign has no exit polling data to show who the voters in those precincts are actually voting...
...feel pretty comfortable with saying we're going to have one for the record books," McCaskill said. She reported a conversation with staff at one St. Louis-area precinct where 650 people voted in the first hour. "And that's jaw-dropping," she said...
...Texas Parable, 11:30 a.m. E.T. Lorenzo Sadun, a University of Texas mathematics professor and Democratic precinct chairman, was canvassing his old Austin neighborhood last weekend when he spied a homemade McCain sign on a neighbor's lawn. Someone had stolen the official sign and his neighbor had been forced to improvise. "I was ashamed that my side, 'the good guys', would rip off his sign," Sadun told TIME in an email. "So I decided to replace it, partly as penance and partly to show him, and the neighborhood, that we really are the good guys." Sadun headed...