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Ebbie Tolbert was born around 1807 and spent over 50 years as a slave. She got her freedom at the age of 56. She also lived long enough so that at age 113 she could walk to the St Louis polling station and registered to vote.

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In Indian elections no voter is expected to travel more than 2km to a polling station. This sees an entire team setting up a full station for a single voter in the Gir forest.

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1. Indian law says there should be a polling place within 2 km (1.25) of each citizen, so authorities have to set up a polling station in a lion infested forest for ONE MAN

2. In 1972 Canadian radio station CBC held a poll to find a national simile (an answer to 'As American as apple pie'). The winning response was "As Canadian as possible under the circumstances."

3. Out of the 50,000 workers that could have been in the world trade centre on September 11th 2001, only around 19,000 were there that day for two main reasons; because people were late taking their kids to the first day of school and voting at local polling station for the mayoral election

4. During a UK National Election, British media coverage is 'restricted to uncontroversial factual accounts, such as the appearance of politicians at polling stations or the weather'

5. No voter in India has to travel more than 2km to reach a polling station, even remote voters in the mountains or deep in the jungle

6. In 2013, police in the Maldives arrested a coconut for loitering near a polling station for the presidential election. Locals feared the coconut may have been imbued with a black magic spell to influence the election as there was a Surah written on it.

7. An Indian politician lost an election by one vote. His wife failed to show up on election day, and the winner's wife voted at two different polling stations.

8. In India (World's largest democracy) a polling station is setup in Gir Forest for a lone voter in every election since 2004.

9. In Los Angeles, there is a McDonald's that doubles as a polling station on election day.

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The triple j Hottest 100, the world's biggest publicly-voted music poll, was spoiled in 2009 after the winning song was accidentally revealed in an advertisement for the radio station's upcoming magazine about the countdown - source

Australia House (Embassy) in London is usually the single largest polling station in Australian federal elections, with more votes being cast at the London polling station than at any polling station in any of the Australian States or Territories. - source

Cooping, an act in which gangs were paid by politicians to kidnap men, get them drunk, and force them to vote. Sometimes the victims would be forced to wear disguises such as wigs, fake beards or mustaches to prevent them from being recognized by voting officials at polling stations.

In 2014 Indian general elections, nearly 10 million government officials were deployed for 814 million eligible voters and 930,000 polling stations were established. - source

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Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn is coined as the first person to use the term "Canadian", in an attempt to break up a fight between a group of English and French settlers at a polling station.

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Canada had a huge voter suppression scandal in 2011, involving robocalls pretending to be from Elections Canada, telling voters their polling station had moved when it hadn't

The largest Polling Station for the Australian elections is in London.

Isreali Labor Party delayed their elections because of a Britney Spears concert as they feared that party members would rather go to a concert than find a polling station and vote