News & Notes: Local residents discuss new voting districts
A single voting district would encapsulate all graduate and undergraduate housing under a new zoning plan reportedly favored by local residents to create districts for the newly consolidated Princeton.Before Princeton residents approved consolidation at the polls on Election Day, student housing was split between Princeton Borough and Princeton Township, and consequently different students would report to different polling locations to vote.There are currently 3,057 eligible voters in the larger of the two University voting districts, which was the part that was located in the borough.Under the new plan, there would be 22 voting districts in total in the consolidated Princeton, with larger districts in the western portions of what is now the Township and smaller ones in the more densely populated areas near Nassau Street in what is now the Borough.The plan was designed by the Mercer County Board of Elections with input from a public meeting held on Dec.