ballot

Definition:
1. The system of voting in writing and usually in secret; an occasion on which a vote is held.
2. A choice that is made by voting.
3. A document listing the alternatives that is used in voting.

Use 'ballot' in a sentence:

• 1. She won 58.8% of the ballot.
• 2. The union already has a mandate from its conference to ballot for a strike.
• 3. Shortlists for job interviews, election ballot papers, lists of conference speakers and attendees: all tend to be drawn up alphabetically.
• 4. The result showed he had polled enough votes to force a second ballot.
• 5. There should be a seven-day cooling-off period between a strike ballot and industrial action.
• 6. Some teams hold ballot-punching parties.
• 7. The ballot boxes have been switched.
• 8. Members can blackball candidates in secret ballots.
• 9. I'm going to write him in on my ballot next year.
• 10. The state election in November will be the last such ballot before next year's presidential contest.
• 11. The Republican ballot features the most sizzling fights.
• 12. The people make their wishes known through the ballot box.
• 13. There will be two ballot boxes ─ one for yesses and one for noes.
• 14. The chairperson is chosen by secret ballot.
• 15. The results showed that 7.2% of the voters cast blank or spoiled ballots.
• 16. They succeeded in putting Perot's name on the ballot in Florida.
• 17. The London Marathon ballot results are in.
• 18. The latest ballot initiative is hardly unique.
• 19. Her immediate aim is to make it to the run-off ballot.
• 20. Mr Bloomberg is not even on the ballot.
• 21. The union said they will ballot members on whether to strike.
• 22. The first ballot is on Tuesday Nov. 20.
• 23. The result of the ballot will not be known for two weeks.
• 24. Were I a Kuwaiti woman wielding a ballot, I would have been a clearer and more present danger.
• 25. He has tallied the result of the ballot.
• 26. Officials must often count up the votes one by one, going through every ballot and recording the vote.
• 27. They had broadcast calls for voters to spoil their ballot papers.
• 28. Election boards will count the ballots by hand.
• 29. They had not found any evidence of a systematic attempt to rig the ballot.
• 30. The leader will be chosen by secret ballot.
• 31. Martinez expressed confidence of victory at the ballot box.
• 32. The state election due in November will be the last such ballot before next year's presidential contest.
• 33. His nominee for vice president was elected only after a second ballot.
• 34. Unions would elect their leadership by secret postal ballot.
• 35. Fifty of its members will be elected by direct ballot.
• 36. The poll was widely discredited after allegations of ballot rigging.
• 37. Under the alternative vote system, voters would be invited to rank candidates on the ballot in order of preference.
• 38. The workers balloted for a strike.
• 39. There will be two ballot boxes—one for yesses and one for noes.
• 40. What percentage of eligible voters cast their ballots?
• 41. The union balloted its members on the proposed changes.
• 42. The union cannot call a strike unless it holds a ballot of members.
• 43. They had already voted for him at the first ballot.
• 44. He has already voted by absentee ballot.
• 45. He publicly attacked the people who've been calling for secret ballot nominations.