The word "booths" is a perfectly acceptable and correct part of written English.
You can use the word "booths" when referring to a public stall or partition, such as the kind typically seen at a market or fair. For example, "The farmer's market had a wide selection of booths offering fruits and vegetables."
And while we sit not voting and whingeing on about the flaws, the weediness, the bolshiness, the taint of Blairism or the badly judged phrases or mannerisms of this or that MP, the rightwing will be obediently marching to the polling booths regardless and voting like billy-o all the way to victory.
Turn out in as many polling booths as your volunteers allow and swallow your fears.
Above that: a floor filled with super-advanced photo booths known as purikura – essentially digital dressing-up boxes.
The Conservatives are still predicting that their dominant message warning against a Miliband government dependent on the votes of the Scottish nationalists will sway the many undecided voters as they enter the polling booths on Thursday.
( Nob Hill offers rich pickings: the outrageous Tonga Room (it rains indoors!) in classic grand dame hotel, The Fairmont; and Big 4 in the more boutiquey Scarlet Huntington across the road, all starched tablecloths, green leather booths and grand piano.
Despite chunterings by the locals at the potential blighting of their favourite hangout, the duo have spent a fortune to keep it looking much as it did: the murals, the red booths, the jukebox, all still here.
Something went very wrong, not just in the polling booths or in the tight little team that surrounded Ed Miliband or in the predictions of the now entirely preposterous pollsters (landlines?), but in the hivemind of the left, or the leftovers, or whatever we call ourselves.
It's a moment out of time preserved with love: the long bar, the wood panelling and mirrored booths, the long-aproned senior waiters, the classic cocktails, the neon… it's all thrilling to the fan of classic Americana.
They also got outsiders to staff the booths and they weren't used to the country way of doing things".
I'd met Farukh a few months earlier, when Michael's publicist, Leslie, gave me a tour of the reputation.com offices: two open-plan floors with soundproofed booths for the sensitive calls to celebrity clients.
Yet the BBC team who polled voters as they left the booths noted that far more of those switching from Labour to Liberal cited the strife-torn state of the Labour Party as their reason for moving than specifically mentioned Mr Tatchell.
