Australian ballot

Definition of Australian ballotnext

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Noun
  • On Election Day last April, 674,730 absentee ballot had been returned – nearly double this year's numbers.
    Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 8 Apr. 2026
  • On Tuesday, the president signed an executive order mandating each state create a list of all eligible voters and restrict their approvals for absentee ballot requests to people confirmed on that list.
    Sarah Davis, The Hill, 5 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • In a strange reversal of a longstanding trend with the Academy, this year’s documentary short ballot is almost entirely domestic (which is to say, films made by or about Americans), while the feature doc category — where subtitles aren’t so common — is entirely international.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 10 Mar. 2024
  • About half a dozen poll workers said this election has been particularly slow, likely because of the short ballot and bad weather.
    Jolene Almendarez, The Enquirer, 16 May 2023
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