vote : Idioms & Phrases

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block vote

  • noun a vote proportional in magnitude to the number of people that a delegate represents
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bullet vote

  • verb vote cumulatively and distribute the votes according to some principle
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Casting voice, Casting vote

  • the decisive vote of a presiding officer, when the votes of the assembly or house are equally divided. "When there was an equal vote, the governor had the casting voice." B. Trumbull.
Webster 1913

casting vote

  • noun the deciding vote cast by the presiding officer to resolve a tie
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Casting vote, Cumulative vote, etc.

  • See under Casting, Cumulative, etc.
Webster 1913

cumulative vote

  • noun an election in which each person has as many votes as there are positions to be filled and they can all be cast for one candidate or can be distributed in any manner
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Cumulative vote ∨ system of voting

  • (Politics), that system which allows to each voter as many votes as there are persons to be voted for, and permits him to accumulate these votes upon one person, or to distribute them among the candidates as he pleases.
Webster 1913

Fagot vote

  • the vote of a person who has been constituted a voter by being made a landholder, for party purposes. Political cant, Eng.
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multiple voting

  • noun the act of voting in more than one place by the same person at the same election (illegal in U.S.)
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right to vote

  • noun a legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US Constitution; guaranteed to women by the 19th amendment
    vote; suffrage.
    • American women got the vote in 1920
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scrutin uninominal voting system

  • noun based on the principle of having only one member (as of a legislature) selected from each electoral district
    scrutin uninominal voting system; uninominal system; single-member system; scrutin uninomial system.
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straw vote

  • noun an unofficial vote taken to determine opinion on some issue
    straw poll.
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uninominal voting system

  • noun based on the principle of having only one member (as of a legislature) selected from each electoral district
    scrutin uninominal voting system; uninominal system; single-member system; scrutin uninomial system.
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vote counter

  • noun an official appointed to count the votes (especially in legislative assembly)
    teller.
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vote down

  • verb thwart the passage of
    vote down; kill; shoot down; defeat.
    • kill a motion
    • he shot down the student's proposal
  • verb vote against
    turn thumbs down.
    • The faculty turned thumbs down on the candidate for the Dean position
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vote in

  • verb elect in a voting process
    • They voted in Clinton
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vote of confidence

  • noun an expression of approval and encouragement
    • they gave the chairman a vote of confidence
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vote out

  • verb thwart the passage of
    vote down; kill; shoot down; defeat.
    • kill a motion
    • he shot down the student's proposal
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voting age

  • noun the age at which a person is old enough to vote in public elections
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voting booth

  • noun a booth in which a person can cast a private vote
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voting machine

  • noun a mechanical device for recording and counting votes mechanically
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voting precinct

  • noun one of several districts into which a city or town is divided for voting; each contains one polling place
    election district.
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voting right

  • noun the right to vote; especially the right of a common shareholder to vote in person or by proxy on the affairs of a company
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voting stock

  • noun shares in a corporation that entitle the shareholder to voting and proxy rights
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voting system

  • noun a legal system for making democratic choices
    electoral system.
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voting trust

  • noun an agreement whereby persons owning stock with voting powers retain ownership while transferring the voting rights to the trustees
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