The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-04-10
Voting Precinct Here
Split Following Town,
County District Lines
Farmville District
Precinct Polling
Place At Armory

Ponderous Farmville Voting Pre-
clnct was divided along town and
maglsterial district lines yesterday
by Circuit Court order signed by
Judge Joel w Flood upon request
of the board of supervisors.
The order designates the splin-
tered off section as Farmville Dis
trict Precinct. leaving the parent
precinct with its former name,
Farmville Precinct.
The Circuit Court action also
specifies that Farmville District
precinct will serve those voters re
siding outside of Farmville. but
within Farmvllle Magisterial Dis
trict. Farmville precinct will serve
exclusively voters who reside. or
maintain residence. within bounds
of the municipality.
Polling Places Set
The Farmville precinct polling
place will continue to be in the
town council chamber in the Mu-
nicipal Building. Farnville Me
mortal Armory, on Longwood ave
nue.. is designated as the polling
place for the new Farmville Dis
trlct Precinct.
Except for the Armory lot. which
is within the town limits, the split
follows precisely along town-county
lines. and persons may know where
to vote, also precisely. by whether
their residence is within or without
the town.
The slight gerrymandering re
CURED to bring the Armory lot with
in Farnlville District precinct was
authorized by a public meeting
mandate that the new polling place
be located close to the town. That
IS to provide as little discourage
ment and inconvenience as possible
to persons having to make the
switch from downtown voting to
edge-of-town balloting.
j. Barrye Wall. Jr., secretary of
the Electoral Board of Prince Ed
ward county. said the court order
follows exactly along lines recon-
mended by the board. It, of course,
IS written as requested by the
board of supervisors. since the
court left the decision to the To-
cality.
Post Card Notice
Upon the recommendation of Wall
and commemorative Attorney F.
N. Watkins, supervisors authorized
Registrar j. H. Allen to notify by
post card all Of the $500 registered
voters within the old precinct.
This will provide ample notifica
ton, and give all an opportunity to
meet with the registrar if there is
some residence or legal question
about their proper place in the new
scheme, they feel.
Allen told supervisors this week
he expects to have the vast Job of
're-tooling voting records and pre-
pairing new set of books for
Farmyllle District precinct com
pleted in time for the July IA Demo
cratic primary election. The board
authorized Allen an appropriation
for secretarial assistance with the
big job.
Situation Bad
The split was made because the
old precinct was voting gargantua
so large as to worry election Of
ficlals and county government off
GERS. The Commonwealth attorney
advised supervisors that no pre-
cinct should serve more than 800
voters. The old precinct was voting
as many as 800, and had $500
registered voters.
At the public meeting last Janu
airy held to give voters an oppor-
tunity to make recommendation
Farmville Mayor w. F. Watkins
said he was reliably Informed that
the precinct was the largest ii
the Fourth District without voting
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