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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A register of persons entitled to vote at an election.

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Examples

  • The Parliamentary poll-book of all elections from the passing of the first Reform Act in 1832 to May 1879: With an alphabetical list of all candidates within that period by Frederick Haynes McCalmont

    A Great New Book for Every Voter 2008

  • An examination of the official poll-book in the County Clerk's office at Springfield shows that all of these figures are erroneous.

    McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 2, January, 1896 Various

  • The freeholders of Middlesex, looking only at the poll-book, exclaimed against the iniquity of this measure, as Luttrell had not above a fourth part of the votes which were entered on behalf of Wilkes; and they presented a petition to the commons, begging them to rescind their motion.

    The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr

  • Of the names on the poll-book but 62 were on the census roll.

    Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. John Sherman

  • Votes might be purchased with safety, too, for voting was public and any one might learn from the poll-book how each man had voted.

    A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. Carlton J. H. Hayes 1923

  • The judges and clerks sat at a table with the poll-book before them.

    McClure's Magazine December, 1895 Ida M. Tarbell 1900

  • Photographed from the original poll-book, now on file in the county clerk's office, Springfield, Illinois.

    McClure's Magazine December, 1895 Ida M. Tarbell 1900

  • What miracle can restore the books we borrow and lose, or the books we borrow and spoil with ink, or with candle-wax, or which children scrawl or paint over, or which "the dog ate," like the famous poll-book at an Irish election, that fell into the broth, and ultimately into the jaws of an illiterate animal?

    Lost Leaders Andrew Lang 1878

  • "I know you to be my enemy, personal as well as political; but I sincerely wish the name of every voter in the county to appear on the poll-book, though my defeat should be the consequence."

    The Partisan Leader: A Novel... 1862

  • Vivian with him to his study to examine some poll-book, and then put into his hands a letter from Lady Julia Lidhurst, which had been enclosed in one to himself.

    Tales and Novels — Volume 05 Maria Edgeworth 1808

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