Sentence examples for out of precinct from inspiring English sources
Still, some higher-ups don't like the idea of his telling tales out of precinct, and, according to the author, his upward progress in the department is stymied more than once.
On Friday, a different federal judge struck down much of Wisconsin's version of the North Carolina omnibus law – a 2013 act that restricted early voting, extended the residency requirement for new voters and denied provisional voters the chance to vote out of precinct.
A federal court last week blocked two of the law's provisions -- eliminating same-day registration and disallowing votes cast out of precinct -- but the other provisions remain.
The state has disallowed votes cast out of precinct, eliminated same-day registration, reduced the early voting period from 17to1010 days, nixed pre-registration for high school students and imposed a strict voter ID law for 2016.
In this case, the plaintiffs argue that the lawmakers knew that African-American voters were disproportionately likely to vote early, vote out of precinct and use same-day registration.
All those forms of voting – early, same-day, and out-of-precinct – are especially popular among Democratic-leaning African Americans.
HB 589 ends out-of-precinct voting – the system whereby voters can cast a provisional ballot in a precinct other than the one where they are registered – and black residents are twice as likely to vote out of precinct in North Carolina than white residents.
It also eliminated same-day registration, out-of-precinct voting, preregistration for sixteen- and seventeen-year-olds, and a week of early voting — measures that fall hardest on communities of color.
Black voters are more than twice as likely to cast out-of-precinct ballots than whites, partly because they are less likely to own a car and have greater difficulty travelling to poll stations.
A future Democratic North Carolina legislature that expands early voting and authorizes out-of-precinct voting might find itself in an ideological mirror image of Judge Motz's opinion, rebuked for selectively providing voting procedures that black voters use more often.
