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WHERE'S YOUR POLLING PLACE?

If you just received a new voter new registration card in the mail and you can't quite figure out why, look a little closer. You probably have been assigned to a new polling place in a new precinct.

Because thousands of the 18-21 year olds who are now able to vote have gone down and registered, the city's voter registration rolls have swollen, making most city precincts larger than is legally permissible. State law requires that a precinct be redrawn every two years if it contains more than 1400 voters. Consequently, the City Clerk's Office has divided up each of the present wards to include a total of twenty new precincts.

So although you are still a resident of the same ward, you may have a different polling place.  The 5 wards that the city is now divided into will remain the same until the city council elections next spring.  The future political configuration of the ward boundaries is now being struggled out by the members of the Ward Boundary Commission who should release their plan soon.

We urge everyone to check out their new voter I.D. card and to remember their new precinct number and voting place.  We all have to cut through all this new confusion and GET OUT AND VOTE!!

VOTE AUGUST 8!     USE THE POWER!