Ferndale Shrinks Voting Precincts from 9 to 7

Roosevelt Primary and the Autumn House will no longer be polling locations for Ferndale residents.

Ferndale residents who vote at Roosevelt Primary or the Autumn House will have new polling locations starting with the August primary after the Ferndale City Council approved a measure precented by Ferndale City Clerk Cherilynn Tallman. Tallman introduced the proposal to shrink Ferndale's voting precincts from nine to seven that would remove Roosevelt and the Autumn House as locations and redistributing those voters throughout the new district lines. Tallman said that as a result of 2010 U.S. Census figures, which reported that Ferndale had lost 2,005 residents, and in conjunction with the state and county redistricting processes (also due to the census figures), a reduction was necessary. (Read about redistricting here.) Under Michigan …

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