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balloting

balloting

11 5.5
Voting in secret to choose between people or ideas
  • noun
  • /ˈbælɪtɪŋ/
translation icon : votación
  • The results of each year's balloting are reported in Deane (1988).
  • balloting process
  • balloting system

If there's ballot harvesting, if there's all this absentee balloting, it just needs to be Election Day.

Examples

  • We understand that the teachers have completed their balloting and a decision is forthcoming.

  • The sixth and final National League All-Star balloting update will be released tomorrow, Tuesday, June 29th.

    Blog text (12)
  • The balloting here has now lasted almost three hours.

  • Through a simple balloting system, two clusters were then chosen for the study.

    Academic text (2007)
  • The United States allocated $35 million in aid to South Africa to support the historic balloting.

    Academic text (1994)
  • The results of the June 1991 balloting were intriguing.

    Academic text (1991)
  • A week after the balloting, the Supreme Court handed down a decision overturning the election.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • In each of the states, ten secondary schools were randomly selected through the use of a balloting technique.

    Academic text (2005)
  • Just 31 percent of the county's 238,000 registered voters turned out for the balloting, but Dent reports only three scanners.

    Academic text (2008)
  • The balloting for the new committee members will take place next week, ensuring everyone can cast their vote privately.

Synonyms

vote
vsballoting
1.0

The number of people who choose one option in an election or poll

is the ongoing procedure organising secret private decision making
voting
vsballoting
588 1.4

A way of choosing between options, often by ballot or raising a hand

is the same action but stresses a secret private method for decisions
ballot
vsballoting
237 3.2

A way of voting to choose a person or decide something

is focused on secret or private method rather than just counted procedure
polling
vsballoting
178 2.6

Collecting votes or opinions from people, for example during an election

is centered on secret private counting to decide between alternatives

Surface Forms

balloting singular
ballotings plural

Morphology

balloting = ballot (transparent) = ballot + ing

A standard gerund/nominalization from the verb 'ballot' indicating the process or action of voting.

Etymology

The word balloting comes from an old way of voting with small balls: the Italian word ballotta meant 'little ball', like the simple English word ball. So balloting now means the act of voting, especially when votes are secret.