polling booth

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Under the Ballot Secrecy Act 2023, it is an offence to be in a polling booth with another person in order to influence that person to vote in a particular way.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026

At one Yopougon polling booth, only around 20 people had voted out of around 400 registered at that station.

From Barron's • Dec. 28, 2025

And sitting at a picnic table overlooking the water, Sharyn Smith tells me she met Mr Bayldon-Lumsden at the polling booth earlier this week.

From BBC • Mar. 14, 2024

Many locals stayed away from the polling booth because of Indigenous funeral practices following a young man’s recent suicide.

From Washington Times • Sep. 26, 2023

On election day I went into the polling booth and drew the curtain behind me and unfolded my ballots.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright