voting booth
noun
chiefly US
: a small, enclosed area in which a person stands for privacy while casting a vote
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Voter turnout in runoff elections is typically very low, and the candidate who gets their supporters to the voting booth has the advantage.
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Gromer Jeffers Jr, Dallas Morning News, 27 Mar. 2026
So Republican voters are going to vote- the voting booth believing what a Democrat told them on TV based on a smear headline written by a liberal reporter in DC.
—CBS News, 15 Mar. 2026
While voters in each district will carry particular concerns into the voting booth, candidates almost universally promised to tamp down property taxes and address potential budget hits with the final wind-down of pandemic aid and cuts to federal health care subsidies.
—A.d. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 14 Mar. 2026
Migration scholars have shown that voters often support strict immigration policies in the voting booth but resist and protest when governments attempt to implement those policies in organized immigrant communities.
—Kelsey Norman, The Conversation, 23 Jan. 2026
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Gromer Jeffers Jr, Dallas Morning News, 27 Mar. 2026
So Republican voters are going to vote- the voting booth believing what a Democrat told them on TV based on a smear headline written by a liberal reporter in DC.
—CBS News, 15 Mar. 2026
While voters in each district will carry particular concerns into the voting booth, candidates almost universally promised to tamp down property taxes and address potential budget hits with the final wind-down of pandemic aid and cuts to federal health care subsidies.
—A.d. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 14 Mar. 2026
Migration scholars have shown that voters often support strict immigration policies in the voting booth but resist and protest when governments attempt to implement those policies in organized immigrant communities.
—Kelsey Norman, The Conversation, 23 Jan. 2026
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“Voting booth.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/voting%20booth. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.
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