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- noun Plural form of
precinct .
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Examples
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Rather, the specter of widespread voter shenanigans in black and Latino precincts is a subterfuge.
David A. Love: The Corporate Financing of Voter Suppression David A. Love 2010
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This courtyard is just outside the main precincts of my college, tucked away behind the old school of divinity and in the midst of a maze of buildings.
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Playboy, which has long lived in some of television's seediest precincts, is on a crusade to win over women with more female-friendly shows.
Playboy TV's New Proposition: Bring in Women Russell Adams 2010
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This is part of what's driving the sense of political urgency this year, especially within precincts of the tea party.
Revolt of the Accountants Peggy Noonan 2010
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Tea party supporters became poll watchers in precincts across Houston to guard against voter fraud.
Some complaints surface amid stepped-up efforts to monitor voting fraud Krissah Thompson Washington Post Staff Writer 2010
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Rather, the specter of widespread voter shenanigans in black and Latino precincts is a subterfuge.
David A. Love: The Corporate Financing of Voter Suppression David A. Love 2010
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Early returns from eastern Ward 1 had the State Board of Education candidate trailing incumbent Dotti Love Wade, but late precincts from the ward's gentrifying south and west reaches pushed him to a hard-won victory.
DeMorning DeBonis: Nov. 3, 2010 Mike DeBonis 2010
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What we need is * paper* ballots, with optical scanners in precincts (so that improperly marked ballots can be rejected and corrected in the precincts), and with hand-count audits done on a random sample of precincts after * every* election.
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Museums classically sat apart from the lively texture of the city, behind walls and gates, up great stairways, across moats and squares, on hills or in precincts of their own.
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The claim that IRV is better than plurality is questionable, since it increases the rate of spoiled ballots by a factor of 7, and incentivizes the implementation of fraud-prone (electronic) voting machines, and cannot be counted in precincts (and therefore requires central tabulation that makes counting less transparent and more prone to a central fraud conspiracy).
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