polling booth
a booth in which voters cast their votes.
Origin of polling booth
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How to use polling booth in a sentence
He added that whoever had a score to settle with the government should do so at the polling booth at local elections on March 30.
Turkey Sacks Police Chiefs After Arrests Target Politicians’ Families | Thomas Seibert | December 18, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTFor example, upon exiting the polling booth he sang the Israeli national anthem, HaTikva.
When he got into the polling booth, he pretended to be bewildered about whom to choose, and demanded the precinct worker tell him.
But when it came to the polling booth this enthusiasm evaporated.
If I went into the polling booth today, I would pull the lever for John McCain.
The Man Who Helped Drive Powell Away From His Party | Max Blumenthal | October 22, 2008 | THE DAILY BEAST
The red herring of annexation was drawn across the trail, and many a farmer followed it to the polling booth.
The Canadian Dominion | Oscar D. SkeltonHe represents that vast army of electors whom neither canvasser nor caucus has ever yet cajoled or bullied into a polling-booth.
Obiter Dicta | Augustine BirrellThey would drive the Presbyterians from the bench and the polling-booth as the Presbyterians had driven them.
History of the English People, Volume VI (of 8) | John Richard GreenThomas Brogan dare not leave the polling-booth for his life, until Mr. Carew took him on his car.
Ireland as It Is | Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)Instead of the polling-booth, where nothing counts but heads, you would set for the two parties another trysting place.
Ireland as It Is | Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)
British Dictionary definitions for polling booth
a semienclosed space in which a voter stands to mark a ballot paper during an election
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