Word: precinct
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...East Boston headquarters of the eventual winner, incumbent State Senator Michael LoPresti, Jr. '70, supporters sat munching grapes and cheese. Swing music crept out through crackling speakers, and campaign staffers announced precinct-by-precinct results in a friendly fashion, calling LoPresti's opponent, Boston City Councillor Robert Travaglini, "Bobby" or "Trav...
LoPresti won Winthrop handily, thanks in part to the effort of his Winthrop precinct captain Charles P. Warwick, who has spent 30 hours a week organizing campaign workers...
...gesture LoPresti's political consultant called "classy," Travaglini came to the Ramada Inn and told precinct captain John Crisostamo and his wife Rosemary, "Good victory, Johnny, good victory...
...Everybody knew that [Vice President George] Bush was going to win, and that [Gov. Michael S.] Dukakis would win the state, so most students probably thought there was no reason to vote," said Glenn S. Koocher '71, warden of the third precinct and supervisor of that precinct's polling location at Quincy House. "Everybody sensed that it was over before it was over," Koocher said...
This is the first year that Quincy House and the School of Education's Larsen Hall, where second precinct residents voted, have been used as polling sites. Koocher said that the polls have come to these University buildings because of the recent redistricting in Cambridge and the requirement that polls be made accessible to handicapped voters...