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polling station

noun

  1. a building, such as a school, designated as the place to which voters go during an election to cast their votes

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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“People were terrified,” said Laura Amoedo, a retiree who helped out at a polling station in Buenos Aires province on Sunday.

There is no electronic voting in Bolivia, meaning ballots must be distributed to every polling station nationwide by hand.

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The claims came from Moldova's pro-EU president, Maia Sandu, who told reporters outside a polling station in the capital Chisinau the future of her country, flanked by Ukraine and Romania, was in danger.

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One woman outside the Malembo Primary School polling station told the BBC she was so keen to cast her ballot, she had camped there overnight.

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Leicestershire Police said it had received a complaint against Leicestershire county councillor Joseph Boam relating to an ice cream van allegedly left near a polling station in May.

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