We were not completely familiar with Bristol Township, and at one point, we had Google Maps open trying to figure out where to put everyone." "This was like a puzzle, but more like a Rubik's Cube," said Dean. According to Dean, a polling place can be relocated only within a district or in an adjacent one. The third newly constructed Keystone Elementary School was not included as a polling location because its district - 1st Ward, 1st District - already votes at VFW Post 1597 on Bellevue Avenue in Croydon. It's the same case for Bristol's 5th Ward, 2nd District and 7th Ward, 2nd District, both changing from Ralph Waldo Emerson Elementary to the new Mill Creek Elementary School at the same address, 6501 Mill Creek Road. Thirteen of the 14 changes in Bristol Township reflect either a new location for the polling district, or simply a name change for the same location.įor example, the 7th Ward, 1st District changed its location name from James Buchanan Elementary School to the new Brookwood Elementary School, but the address remains 2200 Haines Road in Levittown. The school district spent years constructing three new, state-of-the-art elementary schools that replaced nine older buildings that officially were closed over the summer, after the April primary. Truman High School on Green Lane in Levittown. Voters in four of the districts - the 2nd Ward, 3rd District the 6th Ward, 3rd District the 10th Ward, 1st District and the 10th Ward, 3rd District - will go to the gymnasium at Harry S. "The actual card will have the address for the new polling place on the right-hand side." "When they open the envelope, there is an upper portion attached to the card that will have a message telling voters that their polling place has changed," said Dean. On Tuesday, the Bucks County Commissioners approved polling place changes recommended by the Board of Elections for 14 different districts in Bristol Township - almost all of them a result of the school district's elementary school consolidation project.Ī total of more than 16,450 registered voters live in the affected districts, according to Board of Elections Director Deana Dean, who said new registration cards will be mailed with messages alerting residents to the changes. Voters in Bristol Township should carefully review their registration cards before heading out to the polls on Election Day.
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