A letter from editor Rich Oppel on polling places
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Any reader easily can get to a list of polling places for Travis County and surrounding places on Statesman.com. Just go to the news tab at the top, then local elections. You'll see a list of links to elections supervisors' offices in six counties. All polling places are listed there. The information on these links is far more comprehensive than anything we've published in the past. Here is the link to our site:
Early voting and Election Day polling locations
We are also providing information each day on page B2 on how to get early voting information online and will do so for the March 4 primary polling locations after early voting ends. For those people without Internet access, telephone numbers are published.
We didn't publish polling places in the print newspaper in November 2006, and received a handful of complaints. We have scaled back on publishing polling places since 2005. The Internet has fundamentally changed how people access lists and other data. We — and most newspapers — have migrated many listings, including those for stocks, TV programs, entertainment and polling places, to the Internet, leaving more room in our print columns for active news and enterprise coverage.
We have more news reports today on the 2008 campaigns and elections than in any previous election.
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