Converse of subject

• elect: The General Council of 25 members is elected annually by individual postal ballot of the members.

Converse of object

• spoil: It's a spoilt ballot which has been proven time after time to achieve nothing.

• cast: The remaining nine electors cast ballots for John Kerry.

Adjective modifier

• postal: The postal ballot shall be issued to all members entitled to vote.

• all-postal: But trial all-postal ballots in four English regions were hit by delays and some fraud allegations.

• consultative: The deal will be voted on in a consultative ballot.

• secret: A secret ballot is to be taken on the new proposal, the result of which will be revealed tomorrow.

• spoiled: Pointed to the large number of spoiled ballots in London when multiple systems were used.

• industrial: Return to top " Notice of ballot Notice of an industrial action ballot must be provided by the trade union.

Modifies a noun

• paper: Ballot papers were handed in for the election of the National Chairman.

• rigging: The judges had exposed ballot rigging in last November's parliamentary elections.

• box: In the end the BNP is only going to be defeated at the ballot box, not by banning them.

• stuffing: Because of a glitch in the software designed to restrict ballot stuffing, Irish soccer player Ronnie O'Brien led briefly.

• envelope: The ballot paper must then be sealed in the ballot paper envelope.

Noun used with modifier

• absentee: The county where I am from has very strict rules about sending absentee ballots abroad.

• derecognition: There is no derecognition without a ballot but the procedure for holding a derecognition ballot is simplified.

• cross-campus: Students in a cross-campus ballot elect these student officers every March.

• strike: Strike ballot papers will go out from Monday 10 July.

• unison: UNISON ballots NHS staff over privatization ( 25/07/06 ) Anger at plans to hand over NHS Logistics to DHL more.

• feeder: Feeder school ballots Most of the other grammar schools are grouped into 26 groups for feeder ballots.