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Definition of Polling station

1. Noun. A place where voters go to cast their votes in an election.

Definition of Polling station

1. Noun. a place where voters go to cast their ballot in an election or referendum; a voting station ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Polling Station

Literary usage of Polling station

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain Parliament (1906)
"... voter to make a selection before the presiding officer of the polling station at which he was qualified to vote in the constituency which he selected, ..."

2. A Guide to Election Law and the Law and Practice of Election Petitions by E. Chandos Leigh, Henry Denis Le Marchant, Yarborough Anderson, Charles Edward Ellis (1885)
"Every officer, clerk, and agent in attendance at a polling station ... or otherwise attempt to obtain in the polling station information as to the candidate ..."

3. Rogers on Elections by Francis James Newman Rogers, Great Britain (1906)
"A separate room or separate booth may contain a separate polling station, ... No person shall be admitted to vote at any polling station except the one ..."

4. The Parliamentary Election Manual: A Practical Handbook on the Law and by Thomas Charles Hunter Hedderwick (1892)
"If anything in the conduct of the election within your polling' station, on the part of the presiding officer or of his assistants, strikes you as improper ..."

5. Bushby's Manual of the Practice of Elections for the United Kingdom: With an by Henry Hardcastle, Henry Jeffreys Bushby (1880)
"The returning officer shall provide each polling station What is to with ... The I""11n*ta*- presiding officer at any polling station, just before the ..."

6. The Australian Ballot System as Embodied in the Legislation of Various Countries by John Henry Wigmore (1889)
"A separate room or separate booth may contain a sepa- Wgg . 2i. rate polling-station, or several polling-stations may be con- Queen's?., § 59 ; structed in ..."

7. The Canada Law Journal by Law Society of Upper Canada, William S. Hein & Company, Canadian Bar Association (1887)
"... there to take the votes of the electors of the said electoral district lawfully qualified to vote at the polling station of the said polling district ..."

8. The Law of the Office and Duties of the Sheriff: With the Writs and Forms by Cameron Churchill (1882)
"A separate room or separate booth may contain a separate polling station, ... No person is to be admitted to vote at any polling station except the one ..."

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