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as in vote
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 suffrage
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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Recent Examples of ballot
Voters in the Kansas counties will vote on all sorts of local offices, including school boards, mayors, city councils and more, plus some local ballot issues.
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Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 14 Oct. 2025
In some cases, local governments will go to all the effort of crafting the measure and then conveniently decide not to go forward, only for a special interest group to then take the measure to the ballot and qualify it at the lower voter threshold.
—Jon Coupal, Oc Register, 13 Oct. 2025
Every ballot cast, every door knocked, every voice raised in this campaign is part of building something bigger.
—Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Oct. 2025
In the 2022 governor’s race, 421,007 San Diegans cast ballots.
—U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Oct. 2025
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Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 14 Oct. 2025
In some cases, local governments will go to all the effort of crafting the measure and then conveniently decide not to go forward, only for a special interest group to then take the measure to the ballot and qualify it at the lower voter threshold.
—Jon Coupal, Oc Register, 13 Oct. 2025
Every ballot cast, every door knocked, every voice raised in this campaign is part of building something bigger.
—Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Oct. 2025
In the 2022 governor’s race, 421,007 San Diegans cast ballots.
—U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ballot
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Mathis received two first-place votes and Ward received one first-place vote.—
Edward McKinnon,
Arkansas Online,
16 Oct. 2025
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Additional no-confidence votes are likely in the coming weeks and months.—
Aurelien Breeden,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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Decades of fighting for women’s suffrage in the United States found success in 1920, which kicked off a decade of some relaxation of the restrictions on women.—
Madeline Holcombe,
CNN Money,
11 Oct. 2025
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From the Revolution to the suffrage movement to the campaign for an Equal Rights Amendment and beyond, advocates have worked to wedge women’s lives into the laws of the land.—
Jane Kamensky,
The Atlantic,
10 Oct. 2025
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“Ballot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ballot. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.
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