Sentence examples for five precincts from inspiring English sources

In Houston, voters in five precincts said machines rejected their efforts to vote straight Democratic tickets.

Nonetheless, last year the five precincts accounted for 60percentt of all gun arrests in Brooklyn, and 25percentt of all shootings citywide, Mr. Kelly said.

Maureen E. Casey, the Police Department's deputy commissioner for policy and planning, said that the department planned to develop a pilot survey in five precincts, one in each borough, and then expand it to every precinct by the summer.

Over all, crime has dropped sharply over the past year in the five precincts, as it has in the rest of the city, Mr. Kelly said, and shootings are down in all but the 67th Precinct.

The top five precincts reporting burglaries were the 70th, which includes the neighborhoods of Flatbush and Crown Heights, the 67th in East Flatbush, the 73rd in Bedford Stuyvesant and Brownsville and the 113th in Springfield Gardens, Queens.

In addition to switching machines, Ms. Brunner recommended eliminating polling stations that are used for fewer than five precincts as a cost-cutting measure, and introducing early voting 15 days before Election Day.

The other six precincts conducted caucuses.

He reorganized the force into nine precincts, from 200 substations.

Ballots from seven precincts remained uncounted, but they appeared unlikely to influence the outcome.

It initially deployed the software in two precincts, and in May announced its expansion citywide.

By contrast, eight precincts made it through mid-November with no homicides.