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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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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a vote in which the confidentiality of how one votes is safeguarded.
    • : Australian ballot.

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Examples

  • 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.