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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



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