poll

1. poll, verb

To single out, one by one, of a number of persons. To examine each juror separately, after a verdict has been given, as to his concurrence in the verdict.

See polling the jury

2. poll, noun

A head; an individual person; a register of persons. In the law of elections, a list or register of heads or individuals who may vote in an election; the aggregate of those who actually cast their votes at the election, excluding those who stay away.

@ polling the jury

A practice whereby the jurors are asked individually whether they assented, and still assent, to the verdict. State v. Linder, 276 S.C. 304, 278 S.E.2d 335, 337.

To poll a jury is to call the names of the persons who compose a jury and require each juror to declare what his verdict is before it is recorded. This may be accomplished by questioning them individually or by ascertaining fact of unanimous concurrence by general question, and once concurrence has been determined, the polling is at an end. Fortenberry v. New York Life Ins. Co., C.A.Tenn., 459 F.2d 114, 115.

If upon the poll there is not unanimous concurrence, the jury may be directed to retire for further deliberations or may be discharged. Fed.R.Crim.P. 31

@ polls

The place where electors cast in their votes

@ poll-tax

@ poll tax

A capitation tax; a tax of a specific sum levied upon each person within the jurisdiction of the taxing power and within a certain class (as, all males of a certain age, etc.) without reference to his property or lack of it. A tax upon the privilege of being; it is a sum levied upon persons without regard to property, occupation, income or ability to pay. Tiefel v. Gilligan, Ohio Com.PL, 41 Ohio Misc. 76, 322 N.E.2d 916, 920.

Poll taxes as a prerequisite to voting in federal elections are prohibited by the 24th Amendment and as to state elections such were held to be unconstitutional in Harper v. Virginia Bd. of Elections, 383 U.S. 663, 86 S.Ct. 1079, 16 L.Ed.2d 169.

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