How to Use polling station in a Sentence

polling station

noun
  • Shah was among the first one to reach polling station at a local school in Kathmandu.
    — ABC News, 4 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
  • For citizens who cast their votes in person at the polling station on that day, the sudden death will not change anything.
    — Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Having someone standing at the polling station reminding voters to review the paper is enough.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 3 Mar. 2020
  • People queue up at a polling station in Kawasaki, Kanagawa prefecture.
    — Freddie Clayton, NBC news, 8 Feb. 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
  • Furthermore, virtually no one commits voter fraud by showing up at a polling station and claiming to be someone else.
    — Steven Greenhut, Oc Register, 5 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • Amid concerns about ballot-stuffing or undercounting votes are worries that votes would not be recorded correctly if voting machines have been tampered with, or if attackers can manipulate totals by intercepting data sent from a polling station to central offices to be tabulated.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 3 Mar. 2020
  • 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
  • Qais al-Khazali (L), head of the Asaib Ahl al-Haq militia, stands along with former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki after casting their ballots at a polling station in Baghdad on November 11, 2025 during Iraq's parliamentary elections.
    — Nabil Salih, Time, 4 Dec. 2025

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