secret ballot

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Noun
  • Price said ballots needing to be remade could include overseas ballots that aren't submitted on ballots readable to the county's voting equipment, absentee ballots that may have been folded for mailing or ballots that are unreadable by the voting machines for other reasons.
    Tom Sissom, Arkansas Online, 26 June 2025
  • They will be required to start recording the boxes on the first day absentee ballots are issued for an election or primary and continue recording until the town clerk retrieves the last ballots.
    Gabby DeBenedictis, Hartford Courant, 17 June 2025
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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“Secret ballot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/secret%20ballot. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.

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