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Another word for ballot

Verb

  1. To select by vote for an office

    2. See also:

    politics

    choice

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Another word for ballot

Noun

  1. A vote

    2. See also:

    vote

  2. A list of candidates

    3. See also:

    ticket

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Sentence Examples

  • On the first ballot Lincoln received only 102 votes to 1732 for Seward.

  • This policy took definite shape in 1297, when the Doge Pietro Gradenigo proposed and carried the following measure: the supreme court, the Quarantia, was called upon to ballot, one by one, the names of all who for the last four years had held a seat in the great council created in 1171.

  • Vote is by ballot, and one member is elected by (approximately) every 150,000 inhabitants.

  • On the second ballot Lincoln received 181 votes to Seward's 1842.

  • (2) The enactment in most of the states of the Australian or secret ballot laws.

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