revote
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- noun
- /ˌriːˈvoʊt/
- After a disputed election, the citizens called for a revote to ensure fairness.
- demand a revote
- recount or a revote
Examples
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A petition will be filed on your behalf and a date will be set for your revote.
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Do you think a Senator Kennedy who counted upon a revote by the legislature every six years would be more beholden to the national Democrat leaders in Washington or the local party leaders in Mass?
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- Call for a revote.
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Guys, we need to unite, fix the electoral college, and demand a revote.
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These terrorist attacks against senate members come a week before the revote on the anti-arms bill.
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Call for a revote in states where the exit polls statistically showed a significant difference from the vote count.
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They should hold a revote for all of America to get this Marxist Muslim out of our White House.
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Both senator thyme and senator Victor sponsored the mideast anti-arms bill, which is coming up for a revote.
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He can't really come out and say, "Well, I messed up when I didn't allow the revotes, and now I've lost your trust."
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Due to irregularities in the initial count, a revote was scheduled to confirm the results.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Revote comes from the prefix re- meaning 'again' and the word vote meaning 'to choose'. It refers to a second or repeated vote, so people hold a revote to vote again when there was an error or the result was unclear.