voting

Verb

Present participle of vote.

Adjective

(not comparable)

(finance) Having an associated right for the holder to vote as an owner of business.

Noun

(plural votings)

action of the verb to vote

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voting - Legal Definition

n

The casting of ballots to decide an issue; usually used to refer to the casting of votes in order to elect officials or to decide a question on the ballot.

voting trust

Entrustment by a group of stockholders in a corporation of their votes to a trustee, who shall be empowered to act on their behalf, without the stockholders retaining control to direct the trustee’s actions.

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The right of voting being confined to members of the Communist party, the Government represented by no means one really elected by universal suffrage but rather a dictatorship of the lower classes.
In the Terror the number of those voting averaged only 250.
They were defeated on the second reading of the bill, Gladstone voting with them.
Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it.
On the 6th of December he protested with three other peers against the measure sent up from the Commons enforcing the disarming of all convicted recusants and taking bail from them to keep the peace; he was the only peer to dissent from the motion declaring the existence of an Irish plot; and though believing in the guilt and voting for the death of Lord Stafford, he interceded, according to his own account, 3 with the king for him as well as for Langhorne and Plunket.

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