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polling place

/ˈpoʊlɪŋ pleɪs/
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Other forms: polling places

A polling place is where you go to vote. Every four years, Americans go to their polling places to cast their ballots for president.

Depending on a person's address, they're assigned an official polling place — this might be a government building, a school, a community center, or a church. On voting day, registered voters can stand in line at their polling place and vote for the people or issues they support. Polling comes from poll, "take the votes of," a word which originally meant "head," and came to also mean "count heads or votes."

Definitions of polling place
  1. noun
    a place where voters go to cast their votes in an election
    synonyms: polling station
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    type of:
    place, spot, topographic point
    a point located with respect to surface features of some region
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