Voting booth

A voting booth or polling booth (in British English)[1] is a room or cabin in a polling station where voters are able to cast their vote in private to protect the secrecy of the ballot.[2][3] Commonly the entrance to the voting booth is a retractable curtain. Usually access to the voting booth is restricted to a single person, with exceptions for voters requiring assistance. The booths aren't in all states but some, as others use a form of mailing.

New York polling place circa 1900, showing voting booths on the left.

Voting booths used for L’Ordre des Avocats de Paris (Paris Bar Association) 2007 election.

Voting machines generally use either a voting booth or some other form of privacy cover to obscure voters from the view of others.

See also

• Polling station

References

1. "Oxford Dictionaries". Retrieved 19 October 2014.
2. "Voting at a Polling Place". Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
3. "Voting in person". The Electoral Commission. Retrieved 28 May 2013.

External links

• The dictionary definition of voting booth at Wiktionary
• The dictionary definition of polling booth at Wiktionary