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as in vote
a piece of paper indicating a person's preferences in an election
we collected all of the ballots from the students voting for class president
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as in suffrage
the right to formally express one's position or will in an election
believes that even convicted felons should have the ballot
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Recent Examples of ballot
Among the items seized during the search were all ballots, tabulator tapes from the scanners that tally the votes, electronic ballot images created when the ballots were counted and then recounted, and all voter rolls from the 2020 election.
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Dan Raby, CBS News, 30 Apr. 2026
According to the San Bernardino County Registrar of Voters, mistakes can also be corrected by simply indicating the correction on your original ballot.
—Hector Amezcua, Sacbee.com, 30 Apr. 2026
How much have groups spent on a ballot measure in the past?
—Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026
By law, local election offices must start to mail out ballots at least 29 days before an election.
—Linh Tat, Daily News, 30 Apr. 2026
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Dan Raby, CBS News, 30 Apr. 2026
According to the San Bernardino County Registrar of Voters, mistakes can also be corrected by simply indicating the correction on your original ballot.
—Hector Amezcua, Sacbee.com, 30 Apr. 2026
How much have groups spent on a ballot measure in the past?
—Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026
By law, local election offices must start to mail out ballots at least 29 days before an election.
—Linh Tat, Daily News, 30 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ballot
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Nothing can be finalized until at least 23 of the league’s 30 owners vote at next month’s Board of Governors meeting, and tweaks to the various proposals are still expected to be made along the way.—
Sam Amick,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2026
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The Tampa Bay Rays are still striving for a Hillsborough County stadium vote in May, the team informed the county late last week.—
Nicolas Villamil,
The Orlando Sentinel,
27 Apr. 2026
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Some events the quilters chose to highlight are the Boston Tea Party, Emancipation Proclamation, Wounded Knee, women’s suffrage, Chinese railroad workers, desegregation, the Flint Strike and student protests.—
Nollyanne Delacruz,
Mercury News,
14 Apr. 2026
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Another installation will tell the story of women's history through shoes, from the suffrage movement of the early 1900s to the heyday of Hollywood.—
Jane Levere,
Travel + Leisure,
10 Apr. 2026
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“Ballot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ballot. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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