polling station

noun

British
: a building where people go to vote in an election

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The slow pace is due to a law that requires each ballot and each tally sheet, which summarizes the votes from each polling station, to be taken to one of more than 100 offices to be counted. ABC News, 9 June 2026 The slow counting pace is due to a law that requires each ballot and each tally sheet, which summarizes the votes from each polling station, to be taken to one of more than 100 offices to be tallied. Franklin Briceño, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2026 At a firehouse polling station in Woodside on Tuesday, Kristin Undhjem described the stress of being dropped by her insurer last year and scrambling to find another company willing to cover her property in the wildfire-prone Silicon Valley suburb. Ethan Varian, Mercury News, 3 June 2026 Voters at a Clay County polling location were greeted with a sign at the election judges’ polling station. Jack Harvel april 10, Kansas City Star, 10 Apr. 2026 Buck Robinson, 54, came with his 7-year-old grandson to the polling station early to beat the line. Madeline Buckley, Chicago Tribune, 17 Mar. 2026 Four years later, Ma was still going strong and using her walker to get to our local polling station. Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 2 Mar. 2026 Otherwise, only one person at a time is allowed to be at a polling station. Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Feb. 2026 People queue up at a polling station in Kawasaki, Kanagawa prefecture. Freddie Clayton, NBC news, 8 Feb. 2026

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