A voting booth or polling booth (in British English) 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.
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.
Voting machine
A voting machine is a machine used to record votes in an election without paper. The first voting machines were mechanical but it is increasingly more common to use '' electronic voting machines''. Traditionally, a voting machine has been defi ...
s generally use either a voting booth or some other form of privacy cover to obscure voters from the view of others.
See also
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Polling station
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Voting
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