ballots
Papers for voting
Ballots are the papers, cards, or electronic records used to cast votes in an election: The ballots were counted by hand.
The term extends to the voting process itself: The measure will be on the ballot in November.
To ballot is to vote or to draw lots.
A ballot box holds completed ballots and symbolizes democratic elections generally.
Those seeking selection
- electorateEligible voting body
- campaignOrganized effort toward goal
- primaryChief in importance
- generalWidespread, not specialized
midterm · runoff · electoral · partisan · nonpartisan · nomination · platform · caucus
Reckon a total
- tabulateArrange data in columns
- recountNarrate or retally
- resultsWhat follows from effort
- totalComplete sum
enumerate · audit · canvass · certify · verify · margin · threshold · majority
Performers, throw, or splint
- pollingSystematic opinion gathering
- boothTemporary enclosed compartment
- precinctAdministrative jurisdiction zone
- voterBallot-casting citizen
registration · secret · proxy · absentee · mail-in · paper · electronic · spoiled
Right to cast ballots
- franchiseLicensed business operation
- representationDepiction or likeness
- civicPertaining to community affairs
- citizenshipStatus as state member
participation · enfranchisement · disenfranchisement · access · rights · duty · obligation · voice
Direct vote by citizens
- propositionStatement expressing a judgment
- initiativeSelf-directed action capacity
- measureUnit of quantity
- amendmentChange to official text
proposal · question · issue · ratification · approval · rejection · petition · consultation
candidates
Those seeking selection
- electorateEligible voting body
- campaignOrganized effort toward goal
- primaryChief in importance
general · midterm · runoff · electoral · partisan · nonpartisan · nomination · platform · caucus · ticket
count
Reckon a total
total · enumerate · audit · canvass · certify · verify · margin · threshold · majority · plurality
cast
Performers, throw, or splint
- pollingSystematic opinion gathering
- boothTemporary enclosed compartment
- precinctAdministrative jurisdiction zone
voter · registration · secret · proxy · absentee · mail-in · paper · electronic · spoiled · blank
suffrage
Right to cast ballots
- franchiseLicensed business operation
- representationDepiction or likeness
- civicPertaining to community affairs
citizenship · participation · enfranchisement · disenfranchisement · access · rights · duty · obligation · voice · empowerment
plebiscite
Direct vote by citizens
- propositionStatement expressing a judgment
- initiativeSelf-directed action capacity
- measureUnit of quantity
amendment · proposal · question · issue · ratification · approval · rejection · petition · consultation · binding
- democracyvote, voting, election, elections, voters
- votingvote, voters, voter, polls, candidates
- 1972 ElectionNixon, McGovern, Watergate, landslide, reelection
- EU ElectionsEuropean Parliament, MEP, MEPs, vote share, voter turnout
- Papal Conclaveconclave, papal conclave, papal election, white smoke, black smoke
- Roman electionscandidates, voting, campaigns, elections, votes
ballotsbullets
Firearm projectiles
guns · violence · coups · armed force · military force
ballotsdisenfranchisement
Removal of voting rights
voter suppression · silencing · exclusion · censorship · poll taxes
- ballot stuffingFraudulent vote inflation
- ballot boxContainer for cast votes
- stuff the ballot boxFraudulently inflate vote counts
- ballot boxesSealed containers collecting votes
- secret ballotConfidential electoral choice
- absentee ballotVote cast from elsewhere