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Definition of Secret ballot
1. Noun. A vote in which each person's choice is secret but the totaled votes are public.
Definition of Secret ballot
1. Noun. 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. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Secret Ballot
Literary usage of Secret ballot
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"2* secret ballot.—The conduct of elections for members of the house of ...
The act of 1872 provides for a secret ballot, fhe voter marking the name of the ..."
2. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1890)
"... CONNECTICUT secret ballot LAW. CONNECTICUT is one of the first States which
adopted carefully prepared legislation for the support, preservation, ..."
3. Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and of the Political by John Joseph Lalor (1883)
"In popular elections, on the other hand, where the voter represents no delegated
powers but is supposed to vote his own will, the secret ballot is a ..."
4. The Government of European Cities by William Bennett Munro (1909)
"At the demand of one- fourth of the councillors the non-secret ballot — that is
to say, a ballot on which the names of councillors are signed — may be ..."
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