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precinct

noun as in subdivision

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She’s casting doubt on the capability of the national electoral council, or CNE, to transmit accurate results from voting precincts.

Raising $11 million during the final three weeks of the campaign, the party spent it on mailers, digital ads and text messages, as well as organizing phone banks and precinct walking, she said.

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But Ms. Machado led the opposition strategy to get out the vote and capture images of voter tally-sheets at each precinct at the end of the day.

Officers took him to a local precinct before transferring him to a police station more than 200 miles away in Nairobi.

As he sat down to face questions from the feds, his sentences traveled winding paths through vague precincts to fog-filled destinations.

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