ballot
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3.2
- noun
- /ˈbælət/
:
votación
- A lower court struck the measure off the ballot less than a week before the election.
- secret ballot
- cast ballots
- ballot initiative
It's our planet is on the ballot.
- It's our planet is on the ballot.
- But I was in Switzerland last year and they actually had a ballot about it.
- They want to limit who we can vote for on the ballot.
- Yeah, that's what happens to speak on, you know, abortion care and and, you know, abortion being on the ballot.
- People have acted politically across the globe and throughout human history, but they have done so in many other ways than casting ballots.
- So that song alone and that group first ballot, they're in shoe in.
- We have we have the worst turn out on the ballots, you know, on the on the ballot, but forever, you know, so they've been given a free pass.
- And I'm going to say so at the ballot box or no.
Examples
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The topic was the most controversial issue on this year's Maryland ballot, the gun ban referendum.
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But they're putting this on the ballot in November.
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Once you get your ballot, do vote as early as possible.
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The official results from this year's spring mail ballot election were announced to the council.
Academic text (1993) -
There are a lot of aspects that are on the ballot in Georgia.
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Yet, the recent increases in women running for office suggest many of these obstacles to the ballot are diminishing.
Academic text (2013) -
They're going to be counting the ballots in Florida.
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Eph, here, is casting his ballot for Grover Cleveland.
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And in California, activists prepared an initiative for the 1996 ballot to abolish all racial and gender preferences.
Academic text (1995) -
During the election, voters will receive their ballot before entering the voting booth.
Synonyms
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1.0
The number of people who choose one option in an election or poll
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1.4
A way of choosing between options, often by ballot or raising a hand
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2.2
The counting of votes in an election
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5.6
A public vote where people decide on one political question
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2.6
Collecting votes or opinions from people, for example during an election
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1.0
An act of choosing someone or something after thinking about it
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5.5
Voting in secret to choose between people or ideas
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3.4
People vote privately so no one knows their choice
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8.8
A direct vote by all voters about an important public question like independence or a new constitution
Compounds
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3.9
A ballot a person fills out and mails before election day because they cannot go to the polling place
Surface Forms
Etymology
Ballot comes from an old word meaning 'small ball' and is related to ball, because people once used little balls to vote in secret. So a ballot is the process of choosing by vote, often with private counting.