My speeches had been planned upon broad lines, but they lost touch with these as the polling approached.
Polling day came after a last hoarse and dingy crescendo.
The morning of the pollingshe vanished from the constituency.
On the first issue I can still recall little Bailey, glib and winking, explaining that democracy was really just a dodge for getting assent to the ordinances of the expert official by means of the polling booth.
The polling place in this commune was a small house opposite the village church.
The polling had been fixed by the Prefect to begin in all the communes at 7 A.
On March 16 there was a new polling at Brentford, and, as before, Wilkes was returned unopposed.
It is now the general practice for state laws to provide definite polling places, and to guard the receiving and counting of the ballots.
There is provision for polling places, official ballots, and election of officials, just as there is provision for similar machinery in the regular election which follows the Direct Primary.
These leaders had sworn to carry the election and dared the Governor to show one of his scurvy guards near a polling place on the day they should cast their ballots.
The polling place was under a great oak that grew in the Square beside the Court House.
The very atmosphere of a polling place was a stench in the nostrils of decent men.
He returned to Polling in 1735 and devoted the rest of his life to the revival of learning in Bavaria.
Outside one of the polling stations he found Barney Bill holding forth excitedly to a knot of working-men.
Around the various polling stations the crowd was thickest.
Each voter as he appeared at the polling place was asked to state the names of the candidates for whom he desired to vote, and this he did in a distinct voice that could be heard by the bystanders as well as the election officials.
At each polling place, on election day, there is a corps of election judges or inspectors, poll clerks, ballot clerks, and the like.
Every polling place is equipped with one or more voting booths which must be so constructed as to insure secrecy on the part of the voter while he is marking his ballot.
What is the usual location of the polling place in your ward or precinct?
The rivalries of the two bosses, contending for the spoils where the electorate was evenly divided, had made the polling places in the poorer quarters dangerous all day and scenes of rioting at night.
Representatives of the League were at every polling place.
Polling had been brisk during the dinner-hour, and both Cash and Robin considered that we were doing fairly well.
You know, father, that ifpolling places are not fit for decent women, neither are they fit for decent men, and the sooner decent people get around and clean them up, the better it will be for the country.
By the time I got within two blocks of the polling place, I could hear the general commotion.
Men have grown used to such sights and sounds as are seen and heard around a polling place.
There is no charge of bribery (cheers), no charge of corruption, nor of inducing men to come drunken to the polling booth.
Fifteen minutes before closing time for the polling place, one of the election judges will loudly proclaim this fact in front of the polling place.
It is illegal for a voter to be approached concerning a possible candidate any nearer than 100 feet from the polling place.
The polling took place on Wednesday and was kept up with great spirit; at the close the numbers were:— Sir William Russell (L.
It was proved that the police were very inefficient, and often refused to act in cases of riot, and when the mob were pulling down polling booths.
On the morning of the election, Mr. Ives’s party commenced by giving two sovereigns each at the polling place.
The pollingcommenced next morning, Saturday, and was continued on the following Monday and Tuesday.
On the Monday evening the Tory polling booths were pulled down and afterwards burned.
In some constituencies, especially in the North of England, hardly a man refused his signature; the polling number was in each case attached to the signature as a means of identification, and as a guarantee of good faith.
The Tammany captain was busy hauling his voters by the cart-load to the polling place.
We shall get rid of him when these withdraw their support, when they become citizens of the Patrick Mullen stamp, as faithful at the polling place as he was at the forge; not before.
This was fixed for the 6th of August, and, notwithstanding there being several other towns in the electorate equally as important as Noonoon, on polling eve both candidates were to make their final speech there at the same hour.
Polling eve arrived, and the Ministerialists having secured the hall, the Oppositionists had perforce to hold an open-air meeting.
It was strongly urged upon Mr. Crafty to bring up a strong body of voters at the commencement, in order to head the polling at the end of the first hour.
Crafty can now do without them, and won't endanger the election by polling them!
I wish that I were able to narrate all the phases and the turns of the great contest from the opening of the campaign till the final polling day.
Everybody keeps looking in at the different polling places to see if anybody else has voted yet, because, of course, nobody cares to vote first for fear of being fooled after all and voting on the wrong side.
But if once the scrutineers get a man well into the polling booth, they push him in behind a little curtain and make him vote.
Send word by telephone to all the polling places in the county that the hull town has gone solid Conservative and tell them to send the same news back here.
In each of the polling places in Mariposa there is a returning officer and with him are two scrutineers, and the electors, I say, peep in and out like mice looking into a trap.
Yet when I climbed the steep hill leading to the polling station where the Maire presided, I found everything perfectly quiet.
I spent the whole day in driving from one polling station to another, accompanied by a friend who had resided for many years in the French capital.
Living at 24, Addison Road North, I was an elector of Chelsea, and I duly supported at the polling booth the joint candidature of Sir Charles Dilke and Sir Henry Hoare.
In the later elections that took place during my residence at Leeds I always accompanied him in his drive through his constituency on the polling day.
As a newspaper correspondent I was freely admitted into every polling station.
From eight in the morning till past twelve not a single voter had presented himself out of over 1200 assigned to this polling station, nor did a single one present himself in the course of the whole day.
Still the small court-house, we found, had been swept and garnished for use as a polling station.
The Khilafat agitation, accompanied in Bengal as everywhere else by aggressive religious intimidation, affected the polling in some of the Mahomedan constituencies.
Mill had argued that the voter should name his candidate in the polling booth, just as the judge does his duty in a court open to the public eye.
