casting votes
Submitting electoral choices
Casting votes is the act of formally registering choices in an election, poll, or decision-making process.
The phrase emphasizes the moment of submission—dropping a ballot, pressing a button, raising a hand: Millions of citizens are casting votes today.
A casting vote, separately, is a tiebreaker vote held by a presiding officer.
- electorEnfranchised citizen
- pollingSystematic opinion gathering
- ballotVoting document
- suffrageRight to cast ballots
- enfranchisementGranting citizenship rights
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casting votesabstaining
Voluntarily doing without
abstention · sitting out · staying home · nonparticipation · voter apathy
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