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Example sentences from the Web for pollingThey are, to say the least, preparing for civil war (the polling stations are stormed by armed gangs). Houellebecq’s Incendiary Novel Imagines France With a Muslim President|Pierre Assouline|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST How the polling firms and the media adjust to new realities also seems to be a rather long arc. The Gun Battle Since Newtown|Cliff Schecter|December 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST Where necessary, the commission will provide pens in polling booths that will be routinely sanitized. Liberian Senatorial Elections Defy Ebola|Wade Williams|December 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST After all, almost everyone with the inclination to vote will show up at a polling place. Did a Flawed Computer Model Sabotage the Democrats?|Ben Jacobs|November 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Colorado did away with polling places altogether and went to an all vote-by-mail system. Baseball’s Problem Is Politics’ Problem|Doug McIntyre|November 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST His name had not been in nomination until the third polling of the delegates at the national convention. United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches|Various I will fling a hint at it from the stump on the polling day. The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson|Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) Names taken from tombstones in the cemeteries and from the register of births found their way to the polling registers. The Boss and the Machine|Samuel P. Orth Generally speaking, in the most populous places, the polling was concluded within the two days allowed by the act. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III.|E. Farr and E. H. Nolan The day after the polling a farm labourer was asked how he filled up his voting paper. Field and Hedgerow|Richard Jefferies
noun- the casting or registering of votes at an election
- (as modifier)polling day
the conducting of a public opinion poll computing the automatic interrogation of terminals by a central controlling machine to determine if they are ready to receive or transmit messages Words nearby pollingpollice verso, pollicitation, pollicization, pollinate, pollination, polling, polling booth, polling place, polling station, pollini-, polliniferous 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 Words related to pollingcount, survey, vote, opinion, voting, ballot, enroll, register, tally, canvass, examine, interview, returns, figures, sampling, sample, list |