The Town Council on Tuesday adopted a new local voting map that employs four polling places.
The town, as one of just five left not to have re-done the makeup of its polling places after district realignment at the state level, has been under pressure from the state to do something as the presidential/legislative election looms. That means about 80 percent turnout, the registrars of voters said.
Several plans were presented in the council packet, but council members asked to discuss two maps - one with three polling places and one weigh four.
It takes about $4,200 to run a polling place on election day, the registrars said.
Deputy Mayor Brian Motola, a Republican, has said often that he would even entertain two polling places, but the registrars warned agains it, saying that would be too drastic a change from the current five.
Democrats on the council also wanted four.
Marie Herbst said to not consolidate just to consolidate because, "you can't put a price on voting."
Thomas DiDio wanted to keep the neighborhood polling place concept alive. Michael Winkler said because of the geography where Democratic voters are, dropping down to three polling places would create too much confusion.
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