ballot
♦ bal|lot /b'ælət/ (ballots balloting balloted)
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A ballot is a secret vote in which people select a candidate in an election, or express their opinion about something.
The result of the ballot will not be known for two weeks...
Fifty of its members will be elected by direct ballot.
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A ballot is a piece of paper on which you indicate your choice or opinion in a secret vote.
Election boards will count the ballots by hand...
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If you ballot a group of people, you find out what they think about a subject by organizing a secret vote.
The union said they will ballot members on whether to strike.
= poll
● balloting [N-UNCOUNT]
International observers say the balloting was fair.bal|lot box (ballot boxes)
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A ballot box is the box into which ballot papers are put after people have voted.
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You can refer to the system of democratic elections as the ballot box.
Martinez expressed confidence of victory at the ballot box.bal|lot pa|per (ballot papers)
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A ballot paper is a piece of paper on which you indicate your choice or opinion in an election or ballot.bal|lot rig|ging
also ballot-rigging
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Ballot rigging is the act of illegally changing the result of an election by producing a false record of the number of votes.
The poll was widely discredited after allegations of ballot rigging.
1 [N-COUNT] also by N
A ballot is a secret vote in which people select a candidate in an election, or express their opinion about something.
The result of the ballot will not be known for two weeks...
Fifty of its members will be elected by direct ballot.
2 [N-COUNT]
A ballot is a piece of paper on which you indicate your choice or opinion in a secret vote.
Election boards will count the ballots by hand...
3 [VERB] V n
If you ballot a group of people, you find out what they think about a subject by organizing a secret vote.
The union said they will ballot members on whether to strike.
= poll
● balloting [N-UNCOUNT]
International observers say the balloting was fair.bal|lot box (ballot boxes)
1 [N-COUNT]
A ballot box is the box into which ballot papers are put after people have voted.
2 [N-SING] the N
You can refer to the system of democratic elections as the ballot box.
Martinez expressed confidence of victory at the ballot box.bal|lot pa|per (ballot papers)
[N-COUNT] usu pl
A ballot paper is a piece of paper on which you indicate your choice or opinion in an election or ballot.bal|lot rig|ging
also ballot-rigging
[N-UNCOUNT]
Ballot rigging is the act of illegally changing the result of an election by producing a false record of the number of votes.
The poll was widely discredited after allegations of ballot rigging.