Sentence examples for polls are closed from inspiring English sources

THE polls are closed, the ballots counted.

The polls are closed, the votes have been counted... but first, a recap of the week's posts.

Voting places close at 8pm ET. 12.02am GMT It's 7pm on the East Coast and polls are closed in Virginia.

The polls are closed, and we should be happy, but we will earn our pride once the real work begins.

Early voting continues across the country – but it's the last day of early voting in Florida, where polls are closed Sunday and Monday.

Once the polls are closed, prisons can be emptied again and reforms quietly dropped.With both presidential and parliamentary elections looming in the autumn, this cycle looked set to repeat itself.

"You all called Florida before the polls were closed," he said.

WHEN Stratford residents voted to change from a town manager to a mayoral system of government after 82 years, potential candidates seemed to line up for the job before the polls were closed.

At the university, one electoral volunteer claimed that he and the other workers at a rural polling station in Bajo Aguán had been forced to flee after polls were closed by armed National Party members and police, preventing the tabulation of votes.

Judge Baker ordered the polls to remain open an additional three hours, but a state appellate court overturned her ruling, and the polls were closed just before 8 p.m. Senator Christopher S. Bond, Republican of Missouri, said the extension amounted to voter fraud and had threatened to ask federal prosecutors to investigate.

Restrictions were briefly lifted during the 1992 general election, allowing a political debate between the Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams and the Social Democratic and Labour Party leader John Hume to be heard during the election campaign, but the ban resumed once the polls were closed, even preventing Adams' reaction to the loss of his parliamentary seat from being directly aired.