Tulsa County voting precincts with no voters

Tuesday was the first election since redistricting in Tulsa County, and there are some odd coincidences this time. <br><br>Tuesday was primary Election Day with people voting all over the county. News

Tuesday, August 27th 2002, 12:00 am

By: News On 6

Tuesday was the first election since redistricting in Tulsa County, and there are some odd coincidences this time.

Tuesday was primary Election Day with people voting all over the county. News on Six reporter Rick Wells has a riddle for you. What Tulsa county voting precinct has lots of people but no voters?

According to maps at the Tulsa County Election Board this is it. Precinct 187, located in a grassy knoll in the middle of Interstate 244 on the southwest corner of downtown Tulsa. Actually there are two other precincts with no voters. It's a coincidence of redistricting. The census resulted in redistricting and redistricting resulted in new precinct boundaries, and since physical features like roads and rivers must be the borders there are three little gaps with no registered voters in them.

Those little gaps are assigned a precinct number even though there are no voters. Before redistricting there was only one Tulsa precinct, precinct 22, with no voters, Republican or Democrat. Oddly it was the only precinct with real elephants and donkeys. It's the Tulsa Zoo.

And this year for the first time in at least ten years Precinct 22 might have some votes cast. With all the changes in polling places necessitated by redistricting. There were few problems reported, lots of questions and some people a bit confused about where to vote. The questions were answered.

Only one interesting one. A precinct in Bixby, the poll workers could not get the building open. Some voters just voted out of the back of the election judgesâ€™ car until someone showed up with the key.