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Polling booth   /pˈoʊlɪŋ buθ/   Listen
noun
Polling  n.  
1.
The act of topping, lopping, or cropping, as trees or hedges.
2.
Plunder, or extortion. (Obs.)
3.
The act of voting, or of registering a vote.
Polling booth, a temporary structure where the voting at an election is done; a polling place.





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"Polling booth" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the polling places in Mariposa there is a returning officer and with him are two scrutineers, and the electors, I say, peep in and out like mice looking into a trap. But if once the scrutineers get a man well into the polling booth, they push him in behind a little curtain and make him vote. The voting, of course, is by secret ballot, so that no one except the scrutineers and the returning officer and the two or three people who ...
— Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town • Stephen Leacock
... one long celebrated in the history of Yorkshire, being unprecedented in the fierceness of the struggle it provoked. As is well known, there were in those days but two representatives for the entire county, and there was but one polling booth, which was in the castle yard at York. The retiring members on this occasion were Mr Walter Fawkes and William Wilberforce. The former did not seek re-election, for he took the dissolution so much ...
— The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope v. I. • A. M. W. Stirling (compiler)
... The polling booth was erected in the centre of the marketplace. The voting had already commenced; and Mr. Avenel and Leonard were already at their posts, in order to salute and thank the voters in their cause who passed before them. Randal and L'Estrange entered the booth amidst ...
— My Novel, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... he places the ballot paper in the urn without voting there are no means of ascertaining the fact; but unless he forwards to the Electoral Officer an explanation, in due form, of his absence from the polling booth he is liable to prosecution. The percentage of abstentions is thus very low, but, in addition to this result, the obligatory vote has had a considerable indirect effect upon the character of electoral contests. Voting has become an official matter. Formerly, as here, it rested with ...
— Proportional Representation - A Study in Methods of Election • John H. Humphreys


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