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VoteVote Vote, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Voted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Voting.] [Cf. F. voter.]
To express or signify the mind, will, or preference, either
viva voce, or by ballot, or by other authorized means, as in
electing persons to office, in passing laws, regulations,
etc., or in deciding on any proposition in which one has an
interest with others.
The vote for a duelist is to assist in the prostration
of justice, and, indirectly, to encourage the crime.
--L. Beecher.
To vote on large principles, to vote honestly, requires
a great amount of information. --F. W.
Robertson. VoteVote Vote, n. [L. votum a vow, wish, will, fr. vovere, votum,
to vow: cf. F. vote. See Vow.]
1. An ardent wish or desire; a vow; a prayer. [Obs.]
--Massinger.
2. A wish, choice, or opinion, of a person or a body of
persons, expressed in some received and authorized way;
the expression of a wish, desire, will, preference, or
choice, in regard to any measure proposed, in which the
person voting has an interest in common with others,
either in electing a person to office, or in passing laws,
rules, regulations, etc.; suffrage.
3. That by means of which will or preference is expressed in
elections, or in deciding propositions; voice; a ballot; a
ticket; as, a written vote.
The freeman casting with unpurchased hand The vote
that shakes the turrets of the land. --Holmes.
4. Expression of judgment or will by a majority; legal
decision by some expression of the minds of a number; as,
the vote was unanimous; a vote of confidence.
5. Votes, collectively; as, the Tory vote; the labor vote.
Casting vote, Cumulative vote, etc. See under Casting,
Cumulative, etc. Vote
Vote Vote, v. t.
1. To choose by suffrage; to elec?; as, to vote a candidate
into office.
2. To enact, establish, grant, determine, etc., by a formal
vote; as, the legislature voted the resolution.
Parliament voted them one hundred thousand pounds.
--Swift.
3. To declare by general opinion or common consent, as if by
a vote; as, he was voted a bore. [Colloq.]
4. To condemn; to devote; to doom. [Obs.] --Glanvill.
Meaning of Votes from wikipedia
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vote in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A
vote is a
formal method of
choosing in an election.
Vote(s) or The
Vote may also
refer to:
V.O.T.E., an...
- the po****tion
chooses representatives by
voting. The
procedure for
identifying the
winners based on
votes varies depending on both the
country and the...
- null
votes.
Blank votes are
interpreted as
correctly executed votes for "none of the above", and
consistently about 2% of
votes are blank.
Voting "blank"...
- fighting. You'd
count all the 1st
votes,
which gives you your
initial tally. The
formula for the goal is:
Number of
Votes over 2 + 1. To see who
would win...
- [clarification needed]
Surplus votes belonging to
winning candidates (those in
excess of an
electoral quota) may be
thought of as
remainder votes. Seen as a remainder...
-
their votes transferred if possible. This
continues until one
candidate ac****ulates a
majority of the
votes still in play.
Instant runoff voting falls...
- roll, they must cast a
special vote. In the 2011 election, 334,600
advance votes were cast,
representing 14.7% of all
votes cast. This grew to 48% in the...
- of
early voting)
gives the
fraudulent voter the
ability to cast
multiple votes in a
short period of time (if
casting multiple in
early votes), or time...
-
little to do with its
vote count in an election, only in how
those votes were
geographically distributed.
Parties with few
votes sometimes take more than...
- the
residual vote. In Australia, such
votes are
generally referred to as
informal votes, and in
Canada they are
referred to as
rejected votes. In some jurisdictions...
