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ballot English

Meaning ballot meaning

What does ballot mean?
Definitions in simple English

ballot Noun

— A ballot is a piece of paper or a card that is used in voting. The ballot listed three candidates.

ballot Verb

— If you ballot, you draw lots.

ballot

— noun a document listing the alternatives that is used in voting — noun (= vote, voting) a choice that is made by counting the number of people in favor of each alternative there were only 17 votes in favor of the motion they allowed just one vote per person — verb vote by ballot The voters were balloting in this state

Synonyms ballot synonyms

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ballot English » English

vote poll voting balloting ticket elect suffrage polling vote for label election casting of lots write in voting slip votes vote teller vote in voice stub sortition slate sign referendum pole plebiscit opt franchise electoral cast one’s vote cast banknote ballot-paper ballot for

Conjugation ballot conjugation

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ballot · verb

Examples ballot examples

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Simple sentences

It's important to complete your ballot.
The results of the ballot are a foregone conclusion.
Tom already reached the required majority in the first ballot.
The required majority was not achieved by any of the candidates at the first ballot.
None of the candidates achieved the required majority at the first ballot.
The people will decide at the ballot box.
International observers counted up the ballot.
You can vote by absentee ballot.

Movie subtitles

At the close of evidence, court was closed and by secret ballot, in which two-thirds of the court concurred the court reached its findings.
Then again, by secret ballot, in which at least two-thirds of the court concurred the court decided your punishment.
Col. William Mitchell, the court, in closed session. and upon secret written ballot, two-thirds of the members present at the time this vote was taken. concurring therein, finds you, of all specifications and the charge, guilty.
The court, again in closed session. and upon secret written ballot, two-thirds of the members present concurring therein, sentences you to be suspended from rank, command and duty. with forfeiture of all pay and allowances for a period of five years.
I thought we might wanna vote by ballot.
I want you eleven men to. vote by secret written ballot.
This was a secret ballot.
I think we ought to have an open ballot.
You ask for a mandate, General, from a ballot box.
After the sixth ballot, still only black smoke from the window of the Sistine chapel.
He can talk with every leader in the West with the strongest voice of all. The Catholic vote at the ballot box.
I came home to vote in the presidential election because they wouldn't give me an absentee ballot.
And that's when you got involved in meaningless student elections. when you start to try to get your man in so you stuffed ballot boxes and.
Can I have your ballot, please?
I was elected by ballot.
Now I know how I'll cast my absentee ballot come re-election.
To get your ballot paper reimbursed?
I bet he can't even make his mark on the ballot.
This ballot is taking a long time.
What difference does one more ballot make if it's a deadlock?
We suggest that this vote, in order to respect the democratic rules, take the form of a secret ballot!
Ballot boxes stuffed, polling-place judges intimidated candidates assaulted.
Friend, my politics are a matter between my conscience and the ballot box.
I believe in a secret ballot.
In this hypothesis, what will be the outcome of the ballot?
Tomorrow we'll have the ballot.
Pay the ballot and you are free.
We all know how important this ballot measure is.
I hope it's not another blind ballot.
Remember that absentee ballot?
We'll need signatures to overturn the ballot.

News and current affairs

But most Serbs were beginning to believe that the ballot and not the gun was becoming the dominant tool of politics.
Regional administrations also possess their own instruments of obstruction, including propaganda outlets in the regional media, as well as the ability to manipulate ballot papers.
This understanding means that the cure for the current dysfunction will be found at the ballot box rather than in the streets.
The poor and the oppressed may not have much, but they do have the numbers, which is what matters at the ballot box.
LONDON - Individual elections do not always enhance democracy - a useful reminder that the ballot box is only one part, albeit a central one, in any free, plural society.
These negotiations will be much harder in view of the spectacular repudiation of a number of key governments at the ballot box, together with the potent rise of protest and Euroskeptic parties in several member states.
Moreover, most of the 20,000 village councils were elected through secret ballot.
Some influential people, including Schwarzenegger, say the state needs a new constitution that would restrict ballot initiatives and make budgets easier to pass.
Although the election ballot will be 40 centimeters long to accommodate all the symbols of the old and new parties, it won't contain the name of even a single candidate.
While election day itself was relatively free from fraud and thuggery, the process leading up to the ballot was fraught with abuse.
But as voters, they must wait before they see any results delivered by the choice they made at the ballot box.
Under the current system, Egyptian citizens can only show up on the day of a presidential referendum every six years and say yes or no to the single name that appears on the presidential ballot.
Syrian and Iraqi strongmen have done even better with this system, no doubt because they demanded that the names and addresses of voters be put at the bottom of each ballot.
Popper's preferred method, of course, was the ballot box.
Yet there is a real concern that the extremists, who are politically well organized, are seeking to gain control by the ballot over less-organized liberals, thus preventing peace and stability.
Palestine's Hamas, an offshoot of the Brotherhood, succeeded at the ballot box in 2006, but has since failed to deliver credible governance.
By that, he meant no violence and no doctoring the ballot count. The communists would have to live with the result.
The facts on the ground in Burma speak the truth more loudly than all the proclamations from the generals about a free ballot and a democratic transition.
But, according to research by Robert Benewick, a professor at the University of Sussex in England, village elections have been growing more competitive, with a greater number of independent candidates and increasing use of the secret ballot.
One vote on one day subsumes complex matters with one ballot question, which in any event is frequently not the question that many people actually answer.
NEW YORK - Few Americans cast their ballot in the recent mid-term elections on the basis of foreign policy.
By that, he meant no violence and no doctoring the ballot count.
Ballot initiatives were created 100 years ago to empower ordinary citizens, but in recent decades the process has been captured by self-serving elites.

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