Secret-ballot meaning

A type of voting in which each person's vote is kept secret, but the amassed votes of various groups are revealed publicly.
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The voting system involving ballots available only at official polling places, prepared at public expense, containing the names of all candidates, and marked in secret at the polling places.
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Secret-ballot Sentence Examples

  • There was as yet no secret ballot to set the voter free.

  • The syndics (or mayors) are now elected by a secret ballot of the communal council, though they are still government officials.

  • The House of Burgesses consists of 160 members, of whom 80 are elected in secret ballot by the direct suffrages of all tax-paying citizens, 40 by the owners of house-property within the city (also by ballot), and the remaining 40, by ballot also, by the so-called "notables," i.e.

  • In 1839 he was a candidate for the Whig nomination, but by a secret ballot his enemies defeated him in the party convention, held in December of that year, and nominated William Henry, Harrison.

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