secret ballot (vote)

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• Secret ballot — For 2001 Iranian film, see Secret Ballot (film). Part of the Politics series Elections …   Wikipedia

• Secret Ballot (film) — Infobox Film name = Secret Ballot image size = 180px caption = DVD cover director = Babak Payami producer = Marco Müller writer = Babak Payami narrator = starring = Nassim Abdi Cyrus Abidi music = Michael Galasso cinematography = Farzad Jadat… …   Wikipedia

• secret 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.… …   Financial and business terms

• secret ballot — noun a vote in which each person s choice is secret but the totaled votes are public • Hypernyms: ↑vote, ↑ballot, ↑voting, ↑balloting …   Useful english dictionary

• secret ballot — 1. a vote in which the confidentiality of how one votes is safeguarded. 2. See Australian ballot. [1910 15] * * * …   Universalium

• secret ballot — /ˌsi:krət bælət/ noun an election where the voters vote in secret …   Dictionary of banking and finance

• vote — [n] decision or right to decide representation aye*, ballot, choice, franchise, majority, nay*, plebiscite, poll, referendum, secret ballot, show of hands*, suffrage, tally, ticket, will, wish, yea*, yes or no*; concepts 300,376 vote [v] decide… …   New thesaurus

• secret — se‧cret [ˈsiːkrt] adjective 1. something that is secret is only known about by a few people and kept hidden from other people, sometimes because it is illegal: • The unexpected merger has triggered reports of a secret deal. • The judge has twice …   Financial and business terms

• ballot — [bal′ət] n. [It ballotta, pallotta, dim. of palla: see BALLOON] 1. a) Obs. a ball b) now, a ticket, paper, etc., by which a vote is registered 2. the act or a method of voting; esp., secret voting by the use of ballots or voting machines 3. the… …   English World dictionary

• ballot — The document distributed at the annual meeting to shareholders of record who wish to vote their shares in person. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary * * * ▪ I. ballot bal‧lot 1 [ˈbælət] noun [countable, uncountable] 1. an occasion when people can… …   Financial and business terms

• ballot — bal|lot1 [ˈbælət] n [Date: 1500 1600; : Italian; Origin: ballotta, from balla ( BALLOON1); because small balls were used for voting] 1.) [U and C] a system of voting, usually in secret, or an occasion when you vote in this way ▪ The party leader… …   Dictionary of contemporary English