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Synonyms for ballot

poll

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Synonyms for ballot

to select by vote for an office

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Synonyms for ballot

a document listing the alternatives that is used in voting

a choice that is made by counting the number of people in favor of each alternative

vote by ballot

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By the power of our ballots on election day will we take your government away from you--"
The partial results of the Comission on Elections' (Comelec) random manual audit (RMA) ,meant to test the capacity of vote-counting machines (VCM) to read ballot shades in the May 13 polls, showed a 99-percent accuracy rate, a Comelec official said on Thursday.
After accomplishing the ballot with a ballot secrecy folder as cover, the voter should fold the ballot in the same way it was given to him and return it to the Poll Clerk.
'It is very important these ballot are being printed quickly with average of a million ballot per day now,' Jimenez said.
I moved to Arizona earlier this year, and this was the first time I voted using a mail-in ballot. When I finished marking the ballot the instructions required me to sign the envelope and not the ballot.
3), it has been discovered that over 60 ballots had "evaporated" from one ballot box alone, reported ETtoday.
The head of postal ballot unit of Election Commission of Bhutan (ECB), Namgay Tshering said that the rejection of postal ballots while sorting envelope A which happens two days before the poll day was mainly because IDC in envelope A was missing as voters had sealed their IDC with the ballot paper inside envelope B.
PET junks Marcos opposition to use of ballot images in poll recount !-- -- Kristine Joy Patag (philstar.com) - September 26, 2018 - 5:13pm MANILA, Philippines The Presidential Electoral Tribunal has junked former Sen.
KARACHI -- The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has initiated an inquiry into the discovery of around a dozen ballot papers found from a garbage dump in the Qayyumabad area of Karachi on Saturday, three days after the general elections were held across the country.
Sanghar Deputy Commissioner (DC) Liaquat Ali Bhatti on Thursday started an inquiry into the forcible marking of postal ballot papers of government employees at the Shahdadpur Institute of Medical Sciences (SIMS), a private media outlet reported.
Sensitive logistic exercise involves ballot papers while non-sensitive includes deployment of official staff, formation of District Monitoring Teams (DMT), bags, pens, indelible ink and stamps in bulk,' Altaf informed.
But once you've marked X for the representative of your choice, folded the ballot paper and placed it into the ballot box, ever wonder what happens to the all-important box?
Between 1963 and 2015, a total of 112 statewide proposals have appeared on the Michigan ballot. Of those, 75 were constitutional amendments, with 43 of those proposed by the Michigan Legislature and 31 proposed through petition.
It's against the law to take ballot selfies - or, for that matter, any picture of your ballot, whether it's absentee or at the polling place - in 18 states, (http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/ballot-selfies-allowed-42995941) according to a recent roundup by the Associated Press.