POLLING BOOTH • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Polling booth

... 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