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as in votes
a piece of paper indicating a person's preferences in an election
we collected all of the ballots from the students voting for class president
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as in suffrages
the right to formally express one's position or will in an election
believes that even convicted felons should have the ballot
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The Orange Democrat’s vote percentage has gradually increased as more ballots have been counted in recent days, eroding Steel’s initial lead of approximately 11,000 votes.
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Hanna Kang, Orange County Register, 16 Nov. 2024
Price growth ticked higher in October as voters began casting ballots in a presidential election in which economic concerns played a big role.
—Rob Wile, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
The latest figures provide a snapshot of the climate in which voters were casting their ballots.
—Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
A lot of it has to do with vote by mail, those ballots taking a long time for some of these states.
—NBC News, 10 Nov. 2024
Those statistics include in-person early votes and returned mail-in ballots, with almost 57 million ballots requested by mail.
—Ramsey Touchberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Oct. 2024
Additionally, all ballots are anonymous.
—Claudia Levens, Journal Sentinel, 21 Oct. 2024
In the mid-19th century, election ballots were created by political parties, not the government.
—Jonathan W. White, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Oct. 2024
At the polls, voters procured ballots from party workers and, after walking through a crowd, dropped their votes into a ballot box, typically a glass bowl.
—Jonathan W. White, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Oct. 2024
Hanna Kang, Orange County Register, 16 Nov. 2024
Price growth ticked higher in October as voters began casting ballots in a presidential election in which economic concerns played a big role.
—Rob Wile, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
The latest figures provide a snapshot of the climate in which voters were casting their ballots.
—Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
A lot of it has to do with vote by mail, those ballots taking a long time for some of these states.
—NBC News, 10 Nov. 2024
Those statistics include in-person early votes and returned mail-in ballots, with almost 57 million ballots requested by mail.
—Ramsey Touchberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Oct. 2024
Additionally, all ballots are anonymous.
—Claudia Levens, Journal Sentinel, 21 Oct. 2024
In the mid-19th century, election ballots were created by political parties, not the government.
—Jonathan W. White, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Oct. 2024
At the polls, voters procured ballots from party workers and, after walking through a crowd, dropped their votes into a ballot box, typically a glass bowl.
—Jonathan W. White, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Oct. 2024
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“Ballots.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ballots. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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