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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All votes are anonymous.  How can the New York Times drill down to the neighborhood level?  I assume they could get results from different polling locations, but people are free to vote at locations that are far from their neighborhoods.[/quote]

Vote totals are reported by precinct. Those are the precinct numbers - the votes of people registered in the precinct, including those who voted absentee or early at a different location. [/quote]

Pardon my ignorance here, but in Montgomery County voters were allowed to choose from several different polling locations in the county if they wanted to vote early.  Were these all in the same precinct?  If not, how do they know who you voted for?[/quote]

You are registered to your home address. That address is in a specific precinct. When you show up to vote somewhere else, they give you a ballot for your precinct. Local offices may be different, you get the ballot for your address, not for the building where you are voting. When the votes are counted they are totaled by precinct. Your ballot doesn’t have your name or any personal identifier but it does have your precinct. [/quote]

Okay thanks.  But aren’t precincts much larger than individual neighborhoods?  I assumed the map drilled down to the neighborhood level but I guess not.[/quote]

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