polling station

noun

British
: a building where people go to vote in an election

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One episode is set in an interminably long line to vote at a local polling station on Election Day. Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 6 Feb. 2025 Former President Jimmy Carter helps an Egyptian voter cast his ballot at a polling station in Cairo on May 24, 2012, as a team with the Carter Center monitored the country's first free presidential election. Jordan Freiman, CBS News, 30 Dec. 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, 4 Dec. 2024 Voters stand in line at a polling station in Washington, D.C., on Election Day, Nov. 5, 2024. Jessica Dickler,ana Teresa Solá, CNBC, 21 Nov. 2024 Mujica, now 89 and recovering from esophageal cancer, turned up at his local polling station before balloting even began on Sunday to praise Orsi’s humility and Uruguay’s proud stability. Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 25 Nov. 2024 Mujica, now 89 and recovering from esophageal cancer, turned up at his local polling station before balloting even began on Sunday to praise Orsi's humility and Uruguay's proud stability. Nayara Batschke The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 25 Nov. 2024 Alaska is the latest state to close, stopping voting at 1 a.m. WHERE: Find your local polling station at https://iwillvote.com. Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024 Several young Georgians who still bore the visible marks of beating described being detained at peaceful protests by security forces; one independent election monitor recounted how he had been roughed up to leave a polling station by a crowd of thugs. Christian Caryl, Foreign Affairs, 26 Dec. 2024

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