Word: precinct
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...That kind of clarity is still a long way off. Because of an overwhelming turnout on caucus night, Texas Democrats are still counting the ballots, cards, and even the loose slips of paper that precinct captains handed out and then collected on the night of March 4, when roughly one million people turned out. Some precincts were so overwhelmed with attendees that some precinct chairs went to Kinko's to run off extra ballots while others, according to the AP, simply tore down the "DEMOCRATS VOTE HERE" signs and used the backs for signatures - one column for Clinton, another...
...many Americans have learned over the last few months, caucuses aren't so easy to calculate - and they seem designed for never-ending fights even after the math is done. There were some 8,247 local gatherings around Texas last week, and precinct chairs are supposed to report their results to 254 county chairs quickly (except, this being Democratic politics in Texas, big city precincts report in a different fashion - but never mind them for now.) Based on the precinct results, county conventions are supposed to elect delegates to a state convention - and it is at that state convention...
...people think Hillary will win in the daytime and her opponent will come in the night and take back the votes she won," Clinton says, referring to Texas' complicated system of primary-then-caucus. Clinton urges Hillary supporters to sign up to attend the precinct caucuses held after the primary vote on Mar. 4. "We are going to have food, music and fun," Clinton tells the crowd, urging them to vote twice - once in the primary and again in the evening caucuses, perfectly legal in Texas where 126 delegates will be allotted based on the vote, 67 on the caucus...
...This is the biggest number of voters this polling place has seen in memory,” said Goodwin. Her fellow polling officials agreed. The Quincy voting place, Precinct 3 in Ward 8, has 758 registered voters. By 5 p.m., 208 people had already cast their ballots...
...indicative of Obama's strategy overall, gathering everyone, actors, directors, producers, elbow to elbow to elbow with everyone," said David Washington, a senior adviser to the campaign in California. Indeed, Obama has approached organizing in California much in the way he did Iowa - with precinct captains and small groups banding together from the ground up, in addition to the more traditional strategy of phone calls, media hits and advertising...