secret ballot
不记名投票,无记名投票,秘密投票,不公开投票
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- : a vote in which the confidentiality of how one votes is safeguarded.
- : Australian ballot.
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The vote would take place by secret ballot — meaning members wouldn’t publicly be on record as voting to remove her unless they said so publicly.
The caucus also voted to keep Cheney in the leadership by a vote of 145-61-1 on a secret ballot, demonstrating the pull both wings of the party exert on members.
The vote was cast by secret ballot, allowing Republicans who wanted to back Cheney to do it without fear of retribution.
She suggested an election conducted entirely with paper ballots “that are signed and have a thumb print on them,” which would violate Georgia’s constitutional requirement of a secret ballot.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, these political machines were the target of reform efforts, which led to the introduction of such innovations as the secret ballot.
In secret, before the referendum, the council went ahead and fluoridated the water anyway.
However, more than 20 players on the ballot this year were probably worthy of being enshrined in Cooperstown.
The death toll, which experts believe has been significantly undercut by secret burials, stands at 7,905.
If 29 vote for someone else, the race for speaker goes to a second ballot for the first time in almost 100 years.
Henri Paul actually worked for the French Secret Service and he had €200,000 in his account when he only earned €30,000 a year.
The remarkable thing was that all the hurrying people she met seemed also each of them to be on a secret and mystic errand.
To Berthier, if to any one, Bonaparte entrusted his secret designs, for he knew that he could do so in safety.
He must be The saltest fish that swims the sea.And, oh!He has a secret woe!
Dr. Adam Weishaupt, professor of canon law at Ingolstadt, founded the secret society of the illuminati.
The obeying of several hints, of secret impulses, argues great wisdom.