precinct
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In 2008, however, Humboldt election officials discovered that software they used to tally votes had failed to count 197 ballots from one precinct.
From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026
At a small shopping precinct in Rochdale, Greater Manchester is a pet shop called Amber Pets.
From BBC • Jan. 10, 2026
This process created a rare island of higher ground in what is now the east/south-east section of the temple precinct.
From Science Daily • Jan. 4, 2026
Officers took him to a local precinct before transferring him to a police station more than 200 miles away in Nairobi.
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 9, 2025
“I’ll call my parents. Or go to a police station, or something. I’m sure there’s a poster of my face in every precinct in Britain by now, knowing my dad.”
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
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