secret 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.