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
  • But Evans did not get the chance to vote at the polling station because she was told by staff that the tabulation machines shut down.
    — Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 21 July 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
  • At a polling station in Rio de Janeiro, the voting machines had already been switched off minutes after polls were set to close and couldn't be turned back on.
    — Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026
  • At a polling station in Rio de Janeiro, the voting machines had already been switched off minutes after polls were set to close and couldn’t be turned back on.
    — Eléonore Hughes, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026
  • 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
  • Fisherwoman Francisca Oliveira Pontes traveled nearly an hour to reach the floating polling station.
    — ABC News, 4 Oct. 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
  • And if more eyes across the street from the polling station mean fewer mistakes and mishandling--in a nation in which ballot mistakes and mishandling are exceedingly rare already--then problems should be few.
    — Arkansas Online, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Meanwhile, at closing, every machine used at every polling station prints its tally, which is then posted in front of the polling place with a QR code, so anyone can check it against the national count.
    — Solly Boussidan, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2026
  • But that has never been a real consideration for nonvoters, who must either submit a formal justification online or at a polling station, or pay a small fine of less than $1.
    — ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026
  • Israeli President Isaac Herzog and his wife Michal arrived at a polling station in Jerusalem on Tuesday morning to cast their votes.
    — Yarden Segev, NBC news, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Officials said the elections were largely peaceful despite a person being killed following commotion in a polling station in the main city of Cotabato on Monday.
    — ABC News, 13 Sep. 2026
  • Robert Anglen The polling station at Walker Butte Middle School in San Tan Valley was very quiet.
    — Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 21 July 2026
  • The Henrietta Szold school in the Rehavia section of Jerusalem, which Benjamin Netanyahu attended as a child, is a polling station.
    — Lia Lapidot Aaron Boxerman and Lia Lapidot, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Voters trickled into a hillside polling station in Wadi Nisnas, a predominantly Arab neighborhood in the northern coastal city of Haifa.
    — Lia Lapidot Aaron Boxerman and Lia Lapidot, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Sarah Henry Justin and Hayden Fogel showed up together at a polling station at Phoenix's Mountain Park Church on Election Day.
    — Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 21 July 2026
  • Early Wednesday morning, Helena Foulkes visited the Providence polling station at Temple Beth El.
    — Whitman Littlefield, The Providence Journal, 9 Sep. 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
  • Municipality, and geographic regions known as departments determine the number of polling stations, using a ratio of approximately 400 voters per polling station.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 24 July 2026
  • Sarah Henry Mesa residents voting early at a polling station at Mesa Community College during the early hours of Election Day talk about civic duty and democracy.
    — Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 21 July 2026
  • First lady Rosângela da Silva, Vice President Geraldo Alckmin and other allies accompanied Lula to the polling station.
    — ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026
  • JoCo voter information Schmidt, the election commissioner, said any voter who believes a device is not responding as expected should immediately notify the supervising judge or contact the election office before leaving the polling station.
    — Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 22 Oct. 2026

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