§ 12224 Precinct Voter Group Division

• •The elections official can divide a precinct into two or more groups.
• •The groups must be as close to equal in size as possible.
• •Each group gets its own precinct board, polling place, ballot box, and vote totals.
• •The rule does not apply when the election uses vote centers.

In a small town, the precinct has 2,000 voters. The elections official decides to split them into two groups of about 1,000 each, setting up two separate polling places and giving each group its own board to count the votes.

Because the law allows the precinct to be divided into equal groups, each group gets its own place to vote and its own people to run the election, so the votes are counted separately for each group.