41.   A widely criticized government decision to cut the number of polling places in urban areas, which are opposition strongholds, is now likely to come under renewed scrutiny.

42.   Achieving access to lunch counters and public facilities and interstate commerce and polling places were all very concrete goals.

43.   Across Manhattan, Bill Bradley enjoyed a little more success outside a polling place.

44.   After all, Congress has already passed a law encouraging local election officials to make polling places accessible.

45.   After trekking to the Election Board downtown, Nightsage said she waited three hours before her paperwork was processed, and then returned to her polling place.

46.   After wrestling with her own decision, Ilana Lent said she was determined to vote, even after she showed up at the wrong polling place in Woodmere.

47.   British citizens living abroad must appoint a proxy to go to the polling place with an authorization to vote for them.

48.   But a dearth of funding for state and local election offices over the last several decades has stymied updating polling places and voter enrollment lists, officials said.

49.   But by this Election Day the mood had turned so somber that at some polling places voters signed petitions to abolish their city.

50.   But a few months ago, board officials said that the practice violated state law, which provides for only one polling place in each voting district.