When I asked him about the 21-vote discrepancy, Mr. Santorum told me that he was not aware of which specific precinct it had occurred in.
"Now that we have all the county's forms at Iowa G.O.P. HQ for the two-week certification process, my statement from Thursday night still applies: While we will not comment on specific precinct vote totals during the two-week certification process of 1,774 precincts, the results of the Appanoose County precincts will not change the outcome of Tuesday's vote".
After that meeting, if the board itself feels there was a miscount in certain precincts, it can also call for a recount in those specific precincts.
Such arrests can be used by the police as part of its larger antigang strategy in specific precincts, and department officials want to preserve that option, the person said.
At an event hosted last week by the Center for American Progress Action Fund that focused on the Latino electorate, Matt Barreto, managing partner at Latino Decisions, said the Edison exit poll will often oversample in specific precincts where it knows it'll be close.
But the problem for his team is that Iowa conducts elections through caucuses, in which individuals must show up to a precinct at a specific time and vote, not through a ballot or written word, but with their physical presence.
Almost always, Remnick locates the objects of his scrutiny in a specific, personal place: a writer's workroom (Philip Roth, Amos Oz, Don DeLillo) or the well-defended precincts of power (Tony Blair, Vladimir Putin).
You are appointed to work as an election inspector in a precinct outside of your precinct of residence.
He mumbled protestations of innocence to a camera crew as he left a precinct house.
He became a Republican precinct official in overwhelmingly Democratic Montgomery County.
