They revert to their independent status as soon as they step out of the polling booth.

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Then, in the privacy of the polling booth, Minnesotans may decide to vote as they have nearly always done.

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In the polling booth, voters must choose a party rather than an individual.

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Usman Khan, 75, was at the polling booth soon after 0700 local time.

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Heck, there may be those who, when they get into that polling booth, just close their eyes and pick someone.

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The crowds at the polling booth back up his statement.

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Voters who have not familiarized themselves with the ballots prior to entering the polling booth may need up to 15 minutes to wade through the gobbledy gook, experts said.

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Blamed for our very refusal to play a bigger role in the civic realm apart from once every lustrum or so milling around the polling booth with the rest of the extras.

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What was happening yesterday is that in all these 300 different district offices around Mexico, you had party representatives and you had the election officials recounting all the data from each polling booth.

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In one polling station in Tripoli, election officials brought out ballot papers, a voting booth and a ballot box to let a disabled man vote from a car.

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