voting booth

noun

chiefly US
: a small, enclosed area in which a person stands for privacy while casting a vote

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For most of her life, Onorato, 61, had not set foot in a voting booth. — Whitman Littlefield, The Providence Journal, 9 Sep. 2026 This kind of generational suffering can show up in the voting booth in a big way. — The Conversation, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2026 And Connecticut changed the voting booth. — Paul Keane, Hartford Courant, 28 June 2026 Only one person at a time can occupy a voting booth, unless a voter is accompanied by a child or is eligible to receive assistance, the California Secretary of State’s Office said. — Angela Rodriguez, Sacbee.com, 2 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for voting booth

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“Voting booth.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/voting%20booth. Accessed 1 Oct. 2026.

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