Secret Ballot Definition

noun
A type of voting in which each person's vote is kept secret, but the amassed votes of various groups are revealed publicly.
American Heritage

The voting system involving ballots available only at official polling places, prepared at public expense, containing the names of all candidates, and marked in secret at the polling places.

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Noun

Singular:
secret ballot
Plural:
secret ballots

Secret Ballot Sentence Examples

  • There was as yet no secret ballot to set the voter free.

  • The syndics (or mayors) are now elected by a secret ballot of the communal council, though they are still government officials.

  • The House of Burgesses consists of 160 members, of whom 80 are elected in secret ballot by the direct suffrages of all tax-paying citizens, 40 by the owners of house-property within the city (also by ballot), and the remaining 40, by ballot also, by the so-called "notables," i.e.

  • In 1839 he was a candidate for the Whig nomination, but by a secret ballot his enemies defeated him in the party convention, held in December of that year, and nominated William Henry, Harrison.

  • The secret ballot was adopted in 1891; the use of the voting machines was authorized in 1899; and the nomination of candidates by primaries was made mandatory in 1907.

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