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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
In the 2024 election, about 51% of Folsom voters cast a ballot for Democrat Kamala Harris, compared to 45% of voters who cast a ballot for Donald Trump, according to official data from the California Secretary of State.
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Nicole Nixon, Sacbee.com, 16 Apr. 2025
The equalization conflict has been punctuated by two landmark ballot measures.
—Dan Walters, Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2025
This is the first year the city is responsible for sidewalk repairs and maintenance following a 2022 ballot measure.
—Max Scheinblum, Denver Post, 14 Apr. 2025
The bedsheet ballot will appear again on Election Day.
—Daniel Biss, Chicago Tribune, 24 Mar. 2025
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Nicole Nixon, Sacbee.com, 16 Apr. 2025
The equalization conflict has been punctuated by two landmark ballot measures.
—Dan Walters, Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2025
This is the first year the city is responsible for sidewalk repairs and maintenance following a 2022 ballot measure.
—Max Scheinblum, Denver Post, 14 Apr. 2025
The bedsheet ballot will appear again on Election Day.
—Daniel Biss, Chicago Tribune, 24 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ballot
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But after more than 40,000 additional mail-in ballots yet to be counted were tallied and announced Friday, Lee went ahead of Taylor by about 5 points, or nearly 5,000 votes.—
Jared Gans,
The Hill,
19 Apr. 2025
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Three weeks later, though, an August vote appears increasingly unlikely.—
Jonathan Shorman,
Kansas City Star,
18 Apr. 2025
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Buy Now 02 of 10 'Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won The Vote, and Insisted On Equality For All' by Martha S. Jones The work of securing women’s suffrage didn’t end with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920.—
Lizz Schumer,
People.com,
19 Apr. 2025
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Florida Ruffin Ridley leveraged her role as an educator and editor to combat racial injustice and promote women’s suffrage.—
Ed Gaskin,
Boston Herald,
31 Mar. 2025
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“Ballot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ballot. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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