ballot

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It means it's likely Mitchell will wind up on the first row of the ballot, since it's a nonpartisan election, and positions on the ballot are assigned by the order in which the City's Board of Elections receives the campaigns 'petition signatures.

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  1. noun A sheet of paper or a card used to cast or register a vote, especially a secret one.
  2. noun The act, process, or method of voting, especially in secret.
  3. noun A list of candidates running for office; a ticket.
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  • It means it's likely Mitchell will wind up on the first row of the ballot, since it's a nonpartisan election, and positions on the ballot are assigned by the order in which the City's Board of Elections receives the campaigns 'petition signatures. —  Home | The New York Observer
  • According to the secretary's office, the last state legislator attempt that qualified for the ballot was against Sen. Jeffrey Dunham in 2008. —  Desert Dispatch : Top Story
  • But their fitness for the ballot was a subordinate question. —  Political Recollections 1840 to 1872
  • At the top of the ballot is the race for president. —  Sand Mountain Reporter: News
  • When I voted yesterday electronically, the first vote that you vote for on the ballot is the presidential candidate. —  Latest Articles
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suffrage ·  vote ·  poll ·  election ·  amendment ·  nomination ·  referendum ·  voter ·  reform ·  legislature ·  congress ·  ticket

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ballot:   balloting ·  ballots
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  1. Italian ballotta, a small ball used to register a vote, diminutive of dialectal balla, ball, of Germanic origin; see bhel-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. First in the 16th century, from Italian ballotta = French ballotte, balotte, a little ball, especially as used for voting, a vote, suffrage, = Spanish balota, a ballot (Middle Latin ballotta), diminutive of balla, a ball: see ball and -ot.
  2. Early modern English also ballat, ballet; from Italian ballottare = French ballotter, earlier balotter, = Spanish balotar, vote by ballot; from the noun.
  3. from French ballot, a bale, properly a small bale, diminutive of balle, a bale: see bale and -ot, and cf. the ult. identical ballot.
 

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