New York polling place circa 1900, showing voting booths on the left.
Voting booths used for the L’Ordre des Avocats de Paris (Paris Bar Association) 2007 election.
A voting booth or polling booth 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. Commonly voting machines use either a voting booth or some over form of privacy cover to obscure the voting screen from the view of others.
