secrecy of ballot
1Ballot — A ballot is a device (originally a small ball see blackball) used to record choices made by voters. Each voter uses one ballot, and ballots are not shared. In the simplest elections, a ballot may be a simple scrap of paper on which each voter… …
2Ballot Act 1872 — In 1872, Gladstone introduced the Ballot Act, which required that British general elections to Parliament and local government election use the secret ballot. Previously employers or land owners were able to use their sway over their employees to …
3Oregon Ballot Measure 58 (1998) — Ballot Measure 58 was a citizen s initiative that was passed by the voters of the U.S. state of Oregon in the November 1998 General Election. The measure restored the right of adopted adults who were born in Oregon to access their original birth… …
4Secret ballot — For 2001 Iranian film, see Secret Ballot (film). Part of the Politics series Elections …
5Australian ballot — a ballot containing the names of all the candidates for public office, handed to the voter at the polling station to be marked in secret: so called because it originated in Australia. Cf. Indiana ballot, Massachusetts ballot, office block ballot …
6voting by ballot — The method of implementing constitutional and statutory requirements for secrecy in voting. In common speech, the word ballot is used to mean the ticket used in voting; the act of voting; the result of voting. But from earliest times voting by… …
7australian ballot — noun Usage: usually capitalized A : an official ballot printed at public expense on which the names of all the nominated candidates appear and which is distributed only at the polling place and marked in secret see indiana ballot, massachusetts… …
8secret ballot — In the context of corporate governance, this is also known as confidential voting. An independent third party or employees sworn to secrecy are used to count proxy votes, and the management usually agrees not to look at individual proxy cards.… …
9Australian ballot system — The term applied to the ballot used and the method and regulation of voting in American elections. The system is not exactly the same as that used in Australia. It also varies between the states, but the statutes which impose the system of voting …
10Australian ballot — Aus*tra li*an bal lot (Law) A system of balloting or voting in public elections, originally used in South Australia, in which there is such an arrangement for polling votes that secrecy is compulsorily maintained, and the ballot used is an… …
