Reprecincting-2021-2022

Every ten years, after each federal census, State law (MGL 54§2) requires each city and town to create new precinct boundaries.  The law requires that voting precincts established by a city or town must meet the following requirements:

• Each new precinct must be “composed of compact and contiguous territory”.
• Precincts must be bounded by the center-line of streets or other well-defined boundaries such as streams or other bodies of water, railroad tracks, power lines or other clearly visible geographic figures.
• No precinct may contain more than 4,000 residents (not voters).
• Every precinct’s population must be within five percent of the average precinct population for that town.

After the 2020 US Census we learned that Rehoboth would need to move from three to four precincts as all three precincts were well over the 4,000-maximum allowed (Precinct 1=4,155; Precinct 2=4,136 and Precinct 3=4,678).  Precincts can only be changed every ten years and must incorporate future growth for the next ten years.  Linda Greaves (Assessors) along with Daniel Roach (Planning Board) worked with the Clerk’s Office to update our 2022 precinct lines incorporating future growth.   I would personally like to thank both Linda and Daniel along with Lynn and Odete for their help with this tedious, time-consuming process.  On October 12, 2021 the Board of Selectmen voted to approve the Reprecincting lines and on October 27, 2021 the State also approved our new Precinct 4 Map and Legal Descriptions.  Therefore, Rehoboth’s Precincts and Precinct Lines have changed, effective December 31, 2021.  The precincts have been manually updated by the Clerk’s Office for the printing of the 2022 Census documents.  During the first two weeks of January 2022 State Elections will be updating our State database with the precinct changes and all voters effected by the reprecincting changes will be sent a postcard mailer sometime mid-late January.  If you are interested in reviewing the new precinct lines and legal descriptions we submitted, please click on the attachments below.  Thank you.  To avoid any confusion on Election Day, the Board of Selectmen voted on November 1, 2021 to designate the Francis Farm Museum (27 Francis Farm Road - Rehoboth) as Rehoboth's Centralized Voting Location.  All four precincts will be voting at the same location.  Any questions or concerns, please call our office (508-252-6502 Extension - 3109, 3112 or 3110) ~ thank you.