polling place

collocation in English

meaningsofpollandplace

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poll
noun
uk
/pəʊl/us
/poʊl/
a study in which people are asked for their opinions about a subject ...
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place
noun
uk
/pleɪs/us
/pleɪs/
an area, town, ...
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(Definition ofpollandplacefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpolling place

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In order to understand just how voter eligibility was determined, it is useful to recall how thepollingplacewas arranged.
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Ideally, this study should use data from each separatepollingplacewithin each parish.
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As already noted, it was the party's responsibility to see that tickets were available at everypollingplace.
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From these hearings, we can reconstruct events that typify actual practices in and around thepollingplace.
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Again and again in their testimony, they describe themselves as professionals, experienced in the customs, traditions, and techniques of party competition in and around thepollingplace.
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The one almost universal exception was the county courthouse in which was located thepollingplacefor what was usually the largest town in the county.
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There could be substantial fraud and intimidation at apollingplacethat might not appear to bias substantially the aggregate returns from the parish.
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Upon questioning, however, he revealed that he was not a resident of the precinct and therefore was not qualified to vote at thatpollingplace.
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Because voting in primaries is voluntary and virtually all voters must be physically brought to thepollingplace, winning such elections requires an extensive activist-based organisation.
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There are almost no accounts of discussions of policy issues by voters, either at thepollingplaceor anywhere else.
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From a contemporary perspective, the layout of the nineteenth-centur ypollingplacemay seem rather odd.
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These occurred when horse-drawn carriages rolled in to thepollingplaceand a servant made his way to the voting window with a ticket or two.
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The best alternative is to distinguish the parishes in which one or morepollingplacereturn was rejected from those in which no returns were rejected.
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Surely that is not to suggest that there will be only onepollingplacefor each district electoral area.
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If there are two polling places in a particular classroom, will he have to define where thepollingplaceis in that room?
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All the county councils ought to be told that we must have apollingplacein every village.
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Because of minor boundary changes, electors may have to changepollingplaceevery two or three elections.
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It is the case that 30 electors can present a petition to me asking that an additionalpollingplaceshall be provided.
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Apollingplacethat is, essentially, a kiosk can operate with a lower staff ratio.
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If we defined "polling station"as opposed to"pollingplace" we should not prevent a schoolkeeper who lived within the curtilage of the school from doing so.
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