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pollbook

pollbook

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An official list of people registered to vote that workers check at a voting place before voting
  • noun
  • /ˈpoʊlˌbʊk/
  • Formal
: lista de votantes
  • To ensure accuracy, they compared the new voter registrations with the existing pollbook.

Examples

  • At the polling place, officials checked the pollbook to confirm that each voter was registered.

  • The possible replacement of our expensive and antiquated paper voter rolls with an electronic pollbook is often cited as a cost driver in the voter ID debate.

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  • The voter ID amendment does not require the use of pollbooks.

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  • The electronic pollbook idea was presented to the GOP majority last session, as DFLers tried to prevent the ID amendment from going to the ballot.

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  • Another not-so-sexy source of problems will be from newer online voter registration systems, an electronic version of pollbooks.

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  • There were four laptops connected to the electronic pollbook, and Virginia law says I had to be given a place to sit where I could see and hear what went on when a voter checked in—name, address, ID.

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  • The election worker used the pollbook to verify the eligibility of voters as they arrived.

Surface Forms

pollbook singular
pollbooks plural

Morphology

pollbook = poll + book (transparent) = poll + book

A straightforward compound 'poll' + 'book' meaning a 'book/record related to polls'; learners who know 'poll' (vote) and 'book' can infer the basic idea.

Etymology

The word pollbook comes from poll + book: long ago poll meant 'head' and then came to mean 'a count of people' or 'vote', and book means a 'list' or record like a 'phone book'. So a pollbook is a book with the names of people allowed to vote, which officials check at a polling place.