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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
polling booth
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But as before, their influence over the voters' mood ended well before the polling booth.
▪ But, in the privacy of the polling booth, cooler and more hard-headed calculations came into play.
▪ In the polling booth, the voter marks his favourite candidate number one, his next best number two and so on.
▪ They felt sure that at the moment of truth in the polling booth most voters will consider their wallets.
▪ We can not expect voters to leave their conscience behind them when they go to the polling booth.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Polling booth

Polling \Poll"ing\, n. [See Poll the head.]

  1. The act of topping, lopping, or cropping, as trees or hedges.

  2. Plunder, or extortion. [Obs.]
    --E. Hall.

  3. The act of voting, or of registering a vote.

    Polling booth, a temporary structure where the voting at an election is done; a polling place.

Wiktionary
polling booth

n. (context Britain Ireland Canada Australia English) A voting booth.

WordNet
polling booth

n. a temporary booth in a polling place which people enter to cast their votes

Usage examples of "polling booth".

Our arrival was timed for nine in the morning when the polling booth was to be opened.

My name was found in the voting register, I signed in the indicated spot with a flourishthen went forward into the polling booth with all eyes upon me.

Recently, I went into my local polling booth and gave one of the volunteers my name.

Marched right up to the polling booth, stuck my fist on the levers and voted.

Since you have forced your mother and brother to live under a roof of license and adultery you think you can also force them-to live in a polling booth refuge from violence and bloodshed, do you?