Word: precincts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...specific charges were made, but Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci and four others asked City Manager James L. Sullivan to seek extra observers to watch the disputed precinct's polls...
Seventy-five per cent of those eligible to vote in the precinct that includes Harvard Yard and six of the River Houses cast a record 1277 votes yesterday, almost four times the previous record turnout...
...warden of the precinct's poll said yesterday that more than 50 per cent of those who came to the poll at the Cambridge Fire Department Headquarters were students from Harvard or Lesley college...
...This is the heaviest student turnout we have ever had," Marion Pynn, clerk of the precinct poll said yesterday...
...Nicholson sees it, has been little touched by the 1976 campaign. Carter's Atlanta vote director, David Brunell, likens it to the sound of one hand clapping. A Democratic National Committee official involved in the registration and get-out-the-vote drive says that in 16 years of precinct politics he has never seen so little public interest. With 150 million Americans of voting age, this year's registration is likely to total roughly 100 million, about even with 1972 despite the fact that some 9 million more voters became eligible...