polling-booth

When voters ask themselves the age-old polling-booth question "Is he like me?" they aren't necessarily wondering about his race.

An Unfamiliar Narrative 2008

In the hope of avoiding a crush Mahony drove straight to the polling-booth.

Australia Felix 2003

I took him along very easily, giving him the benefit of the roll of my tongue as to what he should do, and before he reached the polling-booth he recovered and voted for the Tory.

The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent S.M. Hussey

In the polling-booth he is a public officer charged with certain duties, and if he fails to discharge these duties properly he may work great injury.

Our Holidays Their Meaning and Spirit; retold from St. Nicholas Various

When, therefore, the voter takes his place in this governing body, that is, when he enters the polling-booth and presumes to participate in the business of government, he assumes serious responsibilities.

Our Holidays Their Meaning and Spirit; retold from St. Nicholas Various

Acadian, had not then given way before the softening and concealing hand of 'Time, the great leveler;' and so some twenty years ago, during a close contest between the then rising liberal party and the conservatives, a riot took place near the polling-booth in the Highland

Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall

Stella picketed herself at a corner near the empty grocery which served as a polling-booth for Subdivision Eleven, one of the most doubtful, but was forced to retire at the sight of the first carryall full of men from the Milburn Boiler Company flaunting a banner inscribed "We are Solid for W.W."

The Imperialist Sara Jeannette Duncan

But it was not to the polling-booth that the motor went, it passed it and left the town and came by a small white winding road to the very top of the downs.

A Dreamer's Tales Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany 1917

And at first the voter cried for his polling-booth like a child; but after

A Dreamer's Tales Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany 1917

And the afternoon wore on, and the winter evening came, and the night fell, and all black grew the sea, and about the time that the stars come blinking out to look upon our littleness, the polling-booth closed in the town.

A Dreamer's Tales Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany 1917