secret ballot

Noun

Meaning

a vote in which each person's choice is secret but the totaled votes are public

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

yea aye will majority division vote choice wish franchise ticket referendum ballot poll plebiscite tally
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Antonyms

known public well-known abstain babbling unconcealed
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Hypernyms

vote voting ballot balloting

Examples

The secret ballot makes a secret government; and a secret government is a secret band of robbers and murderers. Lysander Spooner

South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections. Catherine Helen Spence

Once the Afghan people vote and they choose their President with direct, secret ballot from all over the country, there will be a lot of difference in this country and a lot of legitimate power to flow with implementation. Hamid Karzai

Ackerman and Ayres compare this system to the reforms adopted in the late 19th century aimed to prevent vote buying, which led to our current secret ballot process. Source: Internet

All hereditary peers except 92 chosen in a secret ballot of all hereditary peers have now lost their rights to sit in the second chamber. Source: Internet

A report released Thursday by Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers uncovered Voatz "vulnerabilities" which could allow votes to be altered and potentially allow an attacker to recover a user's secret ballot. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

secret approach secret approval secret association secret camera secret candidate secret cell