Yamhill County Clerk, Charles Stern, announced today the new precincts for the year 2000. Changes made in the law during the last legislative session allow for increasing the number of registered voters in a precinct. These changes allow the number of precincts to be reduced from 37 precincts to 17 precincts. The main purpose now is for the collection of statistics.
Precincts are statistical areas in a vote by mail system.
The traditional purpose was to manage polling places as well as providing statistical information about voter response. With the departure of the polling place, the precinct s remaining role is statistical information. New precinct memorandum cards identifying the new precincts will be mailed out to all registered voters the week of January 17 th . A list of the new precincts, and what old precincts were combined to comprise the new precincts, is on the Yamhill County Clerk s web page.