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polls

n. 1 (plural of poll English) 2 (context politics government English) A place where votes are cast in elections. vb. (en-third-person singular of: poll)

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polls

n. the place where people vote

Usage examples of "polls".

Republican strategist Roger Ailes that the press was mostly interested only in conflict, scandal, polls, process and gaffes.

Additional polls show little to no sympathy for Cogburn and Fitzhugh, nor regret for the manner of their deaths.

This was in contradistinction to the incorrect call for Gore while the polls were still open and that actually affected the voting.

By contrast, calling Florida for Gore while Florida polls were still open had a substantive effect on the outcome.

Not only did the networks erroneously announce that Gore had won Florida, but they repeatedly declared that the polls were closed in Florida when they were not.

CBS News alone announced eighteen times that the polls were closed in Florida during the last hour the polls were still open.

Maine by 5 percentage points and was declared the winner within 10 minutes of the polls closing.

Twenty-six states and the District of Columbia were awarded to a candidate immediately after polls closed.

Public opinion polls show large majorities of soldiers favoring the draft for the postwar period.

He also found that the regular polls, based on samplings, underestimated the opposition to the war among lower-class people.

The split vote in the polls just before the war reflected a public still thinking its opinion might have an effect.

She was angry at the public-opinion polls that predicted an easy Republican victory.

They were exhilarated by their success, but they knew registered voters might not go to the polls on election day.

Reverend Thompson had been right about their having problems in getting black voters to the polls after what happened last night.

Laura and Seth canvassed in the black section of Magnolia to explain to those who were afraid to put in an appearance at the polls that they could use absentee ballots.