Voting

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Voting \Vot"ing\,
     a. & n. from {Vote}, v.
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     {Voting paper}, a form of ballot containing the names of more
        candidates than there are offices to be filled, the voter


        making a mark against the preferred names. [Eng.]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Vote \Vote\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Voted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Voting}.] [Cf. F. voter.]
     To express or signify the mind, will, or preference, either
     viva voce, or by ballot, or by other authorized means, as in
     electing persons to office, in passing laws, regulations,
     etc., or in deciding on any proposition in which one has an
     interest with others.
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           The vote for a duelist is to assist in the prostration
           of justice, and, indirectly, to encourage the crime.
                                                    --L. Beecher.
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           To vote on large principles, to vote honestly, requires
           a great amount of information.           --F. W.
                                                    Robertson.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  voting
       n : a choice that is made by voting; "there were only 17 votes
           in favor of the motion" [syn: {vote}, {ballot}, {balloting}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  87 Moby Thesaurus words for "voting":
     Australian ballot, Hare system, PR, absentee voting, association,
     aye, ballot, ballot-box stuffing, canvass, canvassing, card voting,
     casting vote, cochairmanship, colonization, complicity,
     condominium, contribution, copartnership, copartnery, cotenancy,
     counting heads, cumulative system, cumulative voting,
     deciding vote, division, election fraud, enfranchisement,
     engagement, fagot vote, floating, franchise, graveyard vote,
     hand vote, having a part, involvement, joint chairmanship,
     joint control, joint ownership, joint tenancy, list system, nay,
     no, nontransferable vote, partaking, participation, partnership,
     plebiscite, plebiscitum, plumper, plural system, plural vote, poll,
     polling, preferential system, preferential voting,
     proportional representation, proxy, proxy voting, record vote,
     referendum, repeating, representation, right to vote, rising vote,
     say, secret ballot, sharing, show of hands, single system,
     single transferrable vote, single vote, single-member district,
     snap vote, straw vote, suffrage, transferable vote, viva voce,
     voice, voice vote, vote, voting machine, voting right, write-in,
     write-in vote, yea, yeas and nays, yes