Some had also slept at polling booths to beat the crowd.
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In 1917, female New Yorkers were finally invited to the polling booths.
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They shrink from having to go to the polling booths on election days.
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Some protesters threw stones at the polling booths and the troops stationed there.
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Missouri voters face with three separate medical marijuana proposals at their polling booths Tuesday.
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Reuters reporters across the country saw sparse turnout at polling booths during the election.
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It was the first time in history they could go to the polling booths.
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Are we a nation of Rockwellian citizens at polling booths overseen by church ladies?
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States like Florida, Georgia, and Michigan prohibit photography inside polling booths and in polling locations.
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She asserts he is on the ballot just to confuse voters in the polling booths.
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Nigerians queued at polling booths around the country where voting officially began at 383:00 a.m.
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It didn't help matters by banning mobile phones from polling booths (limiting voters' ability to document irregularities).
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Electoral officers have already begun collating results, and provisional results have been posted in some polling booths.
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After decades of decline, European voters are returning to the polling booths, for both national and European contests.
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Halderman infected this card with malicious vote-stealing software before any voters got anywhere near the polling booths.
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Because only about 70% of registered voters actually go to the polling booths, it will survive for now.
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Nigerians queued at polling booths around the country where voting was set to begin at 8:00 a.m.
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After months of voicing their concerns on the streets, on Sunday they took those to the polling booths.
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How his conversation with Merkel goes next week could cast a long shadow over the polling booths of Europe.
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It might also be true that most voters don't enter the polling booths with Medicare for All in mind.
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They've invested in voting machines and polling booths, and their election officials are trained for this kind of election.
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"Hanging chads" were the hallmark of a vote that started in polling booths and ended in the U.S. Supreme Court.
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After polling booths closed on election night, it seemed the race was tight and a runoff vote would be necessary.
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The result is that trans people often face problems — not just in polling booths, but broadly — due to outdated IDs.
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Others — like Alaska, Massachusetts, and Minnesota — ban photos of completed ballots but don't say anything about taking pictures in polling booths.
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Officials in Super Tuesday II states were disinfecting polling booths in an effort to prevent further infections from the novel coronavirus.
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As some 40,000 polling booths across the country opened, reports soon emerged that some of the plastic ballot boxes looked suspiciously full.
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It does mean we don't have to argue about all these crazy laws they pass of keeping people away from polling booths.
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Others were seen trickling into polling booths, where posters bearing the ruling Awami League's "boat" symbol far outnumbered those of the opposition.
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Several of these communities, such as people of color and women, wear their identities on their sleeves — and to the polling booths.
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With just a few days before polling booths open up on Tuesday, voters are still shopping around to make their final decision.
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Curfews and vehicle bans According to the Iraqi Electoral Commission, 44% of eligible voters made it to the polling booths on Saturday.
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They came the night before, some sleeping on the hard ground outside the polling booths so they could vote when morning came.
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The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) has 41 mobile voting teams to attend to more than 400 remote polling booths in the vast nation.
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The day was marred by police violence — voters were pulled from polling booths by their hair, and rubber bullets were used on crowds.
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The Democrats had complained for months about Russia's interference in the 2016 election; now they were ushering illegal immigrants into the polling booths?
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"The pink polling stations got 13% to 21% percent more voters than in the other regular polling booths," Chief Electoral Officer Kunal, told CNN.
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Emerging from one of one of the polling booths, Rita Sera do Carmo, a young woman in her twenties, said she chose da Conceicao.
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Many voters in Cameroon's troubled north and southwest regions stayed away from polling booths as violence broke out between security forces and armed separatists.
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Beyond that, the commission also deploys about 75,000 videographers and almost as many photographers, who record any wrongdoing at the polling booths during voting.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Voting in Lebanon's first parliamentary election for nine years ended on Sunday for all except those already waiting inside the polling booths.
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However, both are missing an essential feature: Telling us the shortest gauntlet of annoying people handing out "how to vote" cards outside these polling booths.
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Across the state's south-east, which Mr Cruz swept, Republicans emerged from polling booths, on an icy day, to say they wanted "anyone but Trump".
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They even want to try and rig the election at the polling booths, where so many cities are corrupt and voter fraud is all too common.
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In the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, a Microsoft cloud-computing platform helped process live video from polling booths to help ensure free and fair state elections.
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Many of the schools across America that house polling booths will not be open on Election Day for the first time after parents raised fears over violence.
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"You've got to watch your polling booths, because I hear too many stories about Pennsylvania, certain areas," Trump said at a rally in Manheim, Pa., last month.
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The size and scale of the elections can be grasped by the numbers involved: More than 1 million polling booths are being set up all over India.
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By staying away from the polling booths, Lebanon's silent majority sent a clear message to the political class: a cosmetic change in election law is not enough.
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ET on Saturday) and will roll westwards over 11 time zones, with polling booths in the Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad due to close at 1900 GMT (3 p.m.
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The proliferation of cellphone cameras and social media has created conflicts in states that have laws against taking photos inside polling booths and sharing photos of marked ballots.
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TUNIS (Reuters) - Polling booths closed at 6 pm (1700 GMT) in Tunisia on Sunday after voting in the first round of a presidential election in the young democracy.
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The new attempt to oust the prime minister comes as voters head to the polling booths for the European elections, with May's ruling Conservative party facing a big defeat.
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There is an air of a festival about voting in Australia: in 2013 19% of polling booths featured "sausage sizzles"—barbecues to reward voters with a sausage on bread.
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Polling booths across the country were sparsely attended, and some voters alleged that ruling party workers had blocked them from entering booths, saying their ballots had already been cast.
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Mr. Sadr's electoral list, "Sairoon" in Arabic, or "On The Move," garnered the largest number of votes, although 56 percent of Iraq's voters stayed away from the polling booths.
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But a majority of the voters staying away from polling booths is a clear rejection of the system that has failed to deliver peace and security, let alone prosperity.
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Vanuatu, population 300,000, will hold a general election on March 19, with the electoral commission encouraging voters to stand two-meters apart and use hand sanitiser at polling booths.
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With nearly 98 percent of returns in from polling booths, PRI candidate Alfredo del Mazo had 34 percent of the vote compared with 31 percent for MORENA candidate Delfina Gomez.
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As he spoke, cadets, in their green uniforms, were familiarized with mock polling booths, where they will be expected to assist voters, particularly the elderly and disabled, on polling day.
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That, in turn, fuelled a suspicion that his support was insubstantial—because the disenchanted working-class whites who flock to Mr Trump's rallies do not flock to the polling booths.
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If a sense of civic duty or numerous celebrity Instagram posts aren't enough to get you down to the polling booths on Tuesday, maybe free pizza will do the trick?
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But saying that American workers—the ones who pay the taxes, go to the polling booths, and apply for those manufacturing jobs, want out of it is inaccurate and irresponsible.
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Lines formed outside polling booths, as voters queued to choose from a field of eight candidates contesting the fourth presidential poll since East Timor won independence from Indonesia in 2002.
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Reuters reporters across the country witnessed sparse attendance at polling booths, and some voters alleged ruling party workers had blocked them from entering booths saying their ballots had already been cast.
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The electoral commission has rearranged the layout in polling booths so that voters must face the presiding officers when marking their ballots, though the officers will not see the ballots themselves.
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Its supporters are losing faith in the power of their vote, and staying at home, whereas the richer pro-China parties are good at getting their supporters to the polling booths.
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The national government in Madrid has said it will deploy police to prevent an independence vote on October 1, with orders to take over any polling booths that are set up.
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Each state writes its own voting laws, there is no national register of eligible voters and no form of ID that is both acceptable in all polling booths and held by everyone.
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Today is Super Tuesday, and voters across the country are going to step into the polling booths and make decisions that could have a profound impact on the future of our country.
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But others have said that Trump may have violated election law by not disclosing the payment by his lawyer, which kept Daniels silent in the days before voters went to polling booths.
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The Greens won the seat, but they did it off the back of conservative Liberal voters (polling booths that have historically favored the Liberal Party recorded the sharpest swings to the Greens).
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The poll that gave Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina a third straight term was undermined by ballot stuffing, voter intimidation and the occupation of polling booths among other malpractices, the group's Bangladesh chapter said.
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Last week, the bishops group said data from polling booths had showed a clear winner, but it stopped short of identifying him because it did not have the legal authority to do so.
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BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentine President Mauricio Macri's preferred candidate was leading former President Cristina Fernandez in an election for a Senate seat in Buenos Aires province, with 24.5 percent of polling booths counted.
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Snapchat's Election Day coverage included five continuously updating Live Stories: "US Election Sound Off" (international shoutouts), "Voting Day" (polling booths), "Election Night" (watch parties), "Colleges React" (college campuses) and "Trump Wins" (victory speech and aftermath).
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian police on Monday blocked plans by hardline Islamist groups to guard polling booths during Wednesday's vote for Jakarta governor, citing the potential for clashes in an election that has stoked religious tensions.
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Election Day is nearly upon us, and it's time for Americans to once again drink from the fountain of democracy as they enter their polling booths for this semi-regular ritual — or opt not to.
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These voters will have a disproportionate weight in the upcoming midterm elections to the House of Representatives, both because they show up at polling booths and because so many of them live in marginal congressional districts.
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"We have asked for central forces at all polling booths so that free and fair elections can be held in the state," said Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, a minister in Modi's cabinet, referring to federal paramilitary police.
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" On what he wants supporters to 'watch' during the vote "You've gotta go out and you've got to get your friends and you've got to get everybody you know, and you've got to watch your polling booths.
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"We are in search of volunteers to help transport undocumented immigrants to polling booths so that they will be able to vote," read one of the messages, which claimed to be from an O'Rourke volunteer named Patsy.
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With almost 17 percent of returns in from polling booths, MORENA's Delfina Gomez had 32.4 percent of the vote, an advantage of 1.3 percentage points over del Mazo, but the gap was narrowing as more results came in.
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The Catalan regional government, which plans to declare independence within 48 hours of a "yes" victory, maintained on Tuesday the vote will go ahead and it sent out notifications to Catalans to man polling booths across the region.
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Though authorities say they will set up polling booths in the camp where Suleiman has taken shelter in the city of Maiduguri, in the state of Borno, only those with voter cards will be allowed to cast ballots.
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With 99.4% of polling booths counted, National Party candidate Luis Lacalle Pou had 9.23% of the vote ahead of Daniel Martinez's ruling Broad Front party with 47.48%, official data showed, with around 30,000 votes separating the two rivals.
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Police on Monday blocked plans by hardline Islamist groups to guard polling booths, citing the risk of clashes after a campaign fraught with religious tensions, and said around 66,000 police and military personnel will be deployed on voting day.
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With nearly 98 percent of returns in from polling booths, the candidate for President Enrique Pena Nieto's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), Alfredo del Mazo, had 34 percent of the vote compared with 31 percent for MORENA's candidate, Delfina Gomez.
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Ten of thousands of Afghans braved the threat of militant attacks and delays at polling booths to vote in the election, a major test of the Western-backed government's ability to protect democracy against Taliban attempts to derail it.
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The Election Commission said it was investigating complaints of rigging, even as at least three voters in southeast Bangladesh, including a journalist, said they were barred from entering polling booths or were told their ballot papers had already been filled in.
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As Phnom Penh's largest foreign investor and economic benefactor, the world's second-largest economy has donated $20 million in polling booths, laptops, computers and other equipment to the National Election Committee, an agency that supervises elections, according to the Associated Press.
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Reuters reporters across the country of 165 million people saw sparse turnout at polling booths in the first fully competitive general election in a decade widely expected to be won by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, giving her a third straight term in office.
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An opinion poll by the Ixe Institute last week suggested he will win close to 60 percent at Sunday's ballot to be held at makeshift polling booths around the country, far ahead of Orlando, seen on 15 percent, and Emiliano on 8 percent.
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I was happy to talk to him—low voter turnout among young people is a perpetual concern, and maybe a teen who spent months talking to other kids about politics would have some insights about what could move young bodies to polling booths.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party will fall short of a majority in a border state after a tense anti-immigrant campaign, an opinion poll showed as voters on Monday trickled into polling booths in the first phase of a five-state election.
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HONG KONG, Nov 24 (Reuters) - Voting at district council elections in Hong Kong began peacefully on Sunday morning, with no signs of a major police presence at polling booths monitored by Reuters despite nearly six months of sometimes violent unrest in the Chinese-controlled city.
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Thousands of monks and nuns in maroon robes, students, and men and women queued to vote outside polling booths in Dharamsala, a town in India's Himalayan foothills where a community of Tibetans live in exile with the Dalai Lama, hoping for resumption of talks with China.
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" The Times reported dryly the next day, "The fact that women voted for the first time at a general election made things comparatively interesting at the polling booths, but there was no confusion, and the women as a rule voted with as little difficulty as the men.
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At a recent rally in Pennsylvania, he had this to say: "You've got to go out, and you've got to get your friends, and you've got to get everybody you know, and you gotta watch the polling booths, because I hear too many stories about Pennsylvania, certain areas".
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Like it or not, controlling immigration is an issue of great importance to the working and lower middle classes residing in the rest of England and Wales whose economic situation is quite different to voters in London; ignore it and you will be punished at the polling booths.
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The president of the SAARC Human Rights Foundation told Reuters he now believed there should be a fresh vote after hearing first hand accounts from voters and some officials presiding over polling booths that activists from Hasina's Awami League stuffed ballot boxes the night before the poll and intimidated voters.
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" And driving the non-Fed day ... "Polls open in Dutch election that is barometer of populism" — AP/The Hague: "Polling booths opened ... in Dutch parliamentary elections that are being closely watched as a [sign] of the strength of far-right populism ahead of national votes in France and Germany later this year.
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A range of scholars who study everything from civil wars to the history of the Ku Klux Klan each expressed deep concern about potential consequences ranging from murders at polling booths to the rise of a new racist terrorist movement to the weakening of the long-term stability of the American political system.
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