polling station

noun

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

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And if more eyes across the street from the polling station mean fewer mistakes and mishandling--in a nation in which ballot mistakes and mishandling are exceedingly rare already--then problems should be few. — Arkansas Online, 28 Oct. 2026 Israeli President Isaac Herzog and his wife Michal arrived at a polling station in Jerusalem on Tuesday morning to cast their votes. — Yarden Segev, NBC news, 27 Oct. 2026 Voters trickled into a hillside polling station in Wadi Nisnas, a predominantly Arab neighborhood in the northern coastal city of Haifa. — Lia Lapidot Aaron Boxerman and Lia Lapidot, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2026 But that has never been a real consideration for nonvoters, who must either submit a formal justification online or at a polling station, or pay a small fine of less than $1. — ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for polling station

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“Polling station.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/polling%20station. Accessed 3 Nov. 2026.

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