The short ballot movement was a progressive era movement to reduce the number of local elected officials in the United States. The reformers advocated...
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A ballot is a device used to cast votes in an election and may be found as a piece of paper or a small ball used in voting. It was originally a small ball...
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The secret ballot, also known as the Australian ballot, is a voting method in which a voter's identity in an election or a referendum is anonymous. This...
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United States Electoral College (category Articles with short description)
2020, eight states name the electors on the ballot. Mostly, the "short ballot" is used; the short ballot displays the names of the candidates for president...
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A ballot box is a temporarily sealed container, usually a square box though sometimes a tamper resistant bag, with a narrow slot in the top sufficient...
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Ballot access are rules and procedures regulating the right to candidacy, the conditions under which a candidate, political party, or ballot measure is...
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Ballot collecting, also known as "ballot harvesting" or "ballot chasing", is the gathering and submitting of completed absentee or mail-in voter ballots...
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An open ballot system is a voting method in which voters vote openly, in contrast to a secret ballot, where a voter's choices are confidential. The open...
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Buys Ballot (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈbœys baːˈlɔt]; October 10, 1817 – February 3, 1890) was a Dutch chemist and meteorologist after whom Buys Ballot's law...
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Clip from "The Ballot or the Bullet" The first 45 seconds of "The Ballot or the Bullet" as given April 12, 1964 in Detroit Problems playing this file...
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The Longest Ballot Committee is a political movement in Canada, at one time affiliated with the Rhinoceros Party, known for flooding ballots with a large...
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The list of Oregon ballot measures lists all statewide ballot measures to the present. In Oregon, the initiative and referendum process dates back to 1902...
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In elections in the United States, a provisional ballot (called an affidavit ballot in New York) is used to record a vote when there are questions about...
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An absentee ballot is a vote cast by someone who is unable or unwilling to attend the official polling station to which the voter is normally allocated...
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Indianapolis 500 race, scheduled for 30 May 1919. Time seemed very short, but Ballot lost no time, notably recruiting the Swiss born engineer Ernest Henry...
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In California, a ballot proposition is a referendum or an initiative measure that is submitted to the electorate for a direct decision or direct vote (or...
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Referendum (redirect from Ballot measure)
and also known as plebiscite, votation, popular consultation, ballot question, ballot measure, or proposition. Some definitions of 'plebiscite' suggest...
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Results of the 2024 South African general election (category Articles with short description)
This article summarises the results of the 29 May 2024 South African general election, including both national ballot and regional ballot outcomes....
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The Ballot Act 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 33) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that introduced the requirement for parliamentary and local...
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Electoral fraud (redirect from Ballot-stuffing)
Ballot stuffing, or "ballot-box stuffing", is the illegal practice of one person submitting multiple ballots during a vote in which only one ballot per...
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2023 Ohio Issue 2 (category 2023 ballot measures)
The Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol initiative, listed on the ballot as Issue 2, is a ballot initiative for legalization of cannabis in the U.S. state of...
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A ballot selfie is a type of selfie that is intended to depict the photographer's completed ballot in an election, as a way of showing how the photographer...
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In combinatorics, Bertrand's ballot problem is the question: "In an election where candidate A receives p votes and candidate B receives q votes with p > q...
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A sample ballot is a document sent to registered voters to help them prepare for an election. A sample ballot usually provides the voter's polling place...
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Third-party and independent candidates for the 2024 United States presidential election (category Articles with short description)
candidates currently have ballot access to at least 270 electoral votes, the minimum number required to win the electoral college. Ballot access deadlines vary...
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Writers' Association of America (BBWAA) will vote by mail to select from a ballot of recently retired players, with the results announced in January. Inductees...
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is a list of ballot measures, whether initiated by legislators or citizens, which have been certified to appear on various states' ballots during the 2024...
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2019 Thuringian state election (category Articles with short description)
also stand on this third ballot if one were held. Ramelow received 43 votes on the first ballot and 44 on the second, short of a majority. Kindervater...
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The exhaustive ballot is a voting system used to elect a single winner. Under the exhaustive ballot the elector casts a single vote for his or her chosen...
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or not a candidate or political party is entitled to appear on voters' ballots. Under Article 2, Section 1 of the United States Constitution, laws about...
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