polling booth

noun

British
: a small, enclosed area in which a person stands while casting a vote

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If a ballot selfie is defined as a photo taken inside the polling booth showing both the marked ballot and the voter, then no, that is not allowed, say Attorney General Dana Nessel and Bureau of Elections officials. Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 27 Oct. 2024 Sam Hou Fai delivers a speech at a polling booth at the China-Portuguese-speaking Countries Commercial and Trade Service Platform Complex on Oct. 13, 2024 in Macao. Dylan Butts, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2024 The 2020 presidential election saw record voter turnout, as about two-thirds of voting-eligible Americans took to the polling booth, though local elections often see much lower turnout rates. Solcyré Burga, TIME, 11 Sep. 2024 France’s President Emmanuel Macron exits a polling booth, adorned with curtains displaying the colors of the flag of France, to vote in the second round of France’s legislative election at a polling station in Le Touquet, northern France on July 7, 2024. Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 11 July 2024 An elderly woman in Ivanovo also set fire to a polling booth at a school, local media reported. Robyn Dixon The Washington Post, arkansasonline.com, 16 Mar. 2024 An elderly woman in Ivanovo also set fire to a polling booth in a school, local media reported. Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024 The next step in the referendum process called for the state ballot board to determine the language that voters would see in the polling booth. Peter Slevin, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2023 And people don't vote very much, so there's also, for a large part of the population here as elsewhere, there's an element of ceremony to going into your local polling booth. WIRED, 18 Oct. 2023

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“Polling booth.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/polling%20booth. Accessed 18 Nov. 2024.

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