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Election Polling Places

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Summary

The purpose of this dataset is to provide current locations for election polling places for the Town of Dedham, Massachusetts.

Description

A polling place is where registered voters cast their ballots in elections. The relationship between voting precincts and polling places is maintained in the PrecinctPollingPlace table and this table should be used to manage the unique occurence of polling places to precincts; as well as occurences that require many voting precincts to be related to a single polling place.

This dataset identifies the location of polling places in the Town of Dedham, Massachusetts as of January 1, 2012.

Last Update

01-07-2013

Attributes

NameType DetailsDescription
FULLADD type: String
width: 150
precision: 0
Address of the polling location
NAME type: String
width: 255
precision: 0
The name of the facility the polling place is located in

Coordinate System

NAD 1983 StatePlane Massachusetts Mainland FIPS 2001 Feet

Credits

Town of Dedham, MA GIS Division

Use Limitations

For planning purposes only.

Legal Constraints

The Town of Dedham makes no warranty in regard to the data whatsoever, including, but not limited to, a warranty of the accuracy of the data or publications. The Town has no liability arising from incomplete, incorrect, inaccurate or misleading data provided. The Town makes no warranties of fitness or merchantability either express or implied in regard to the data or publications provided hereunder. The data or publications provided are provided “as is”. All maps or other documents produced using the data supplied by the Town must contain a data source credit, prominently displayed, such as “GIS data supplied by the Town of Dedham”.

Also, a disclaimer statement shall be attached or displayed stating: “The Town of Dedham makes no claims, no representations and no warranties, express or implied, concerning the validity (expressed or implied), the reliability or the accuracy of the GIS data furnished by the Town, including the implied validity of any uses of such data”.

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Dedham,voting,elections