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A constable's or police district. A small geographical unit of government. An election district created for convenient localization of polling places. A county or municipal subdivision for casting and counting votes in elections. See also: bailiwick, circuit, close, department, district, province, region, territory PRECINCT. The district for which a high or petty constable is appointed, is
in England, called a precinct. Willc. Office of Const. xii.
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| As a result of a new state law dictating a voting precinct size, the county registrar-recorder had to add 420 new polling places. King's birthday); the 40th Anniversary Circle of Light and Truth Demonstration during the President's State of the Union (Jan 20, 2004); Mobilization Conclaves and Presentations at Democratic and Republican Conventions (June & July 2004); and a 40th Anniversary March on Ballot Boxes in Every Voting Precinct in America (Tuesday, Nov. Ziv Kozaski, 43, of Woodland Hills was among the few to stop by his voting precinct Tuesday night. |
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