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noun

Voting n. A. & n. from Vote, v.

Voting paper, a form of ballot containing the names of more candidates than there are offices to be filled, the voter making a mark against the preferred names. (Eng.)

verb

Vote v. t.

To choose by suffrage; to elect; as, to vote a candidate into office.

To enact, establish, grant, determine, etc., by a formal vote; as, the legislature voted the resolution. "Parliament voted them one hundred thousand pounds."

To declare by general opinion or common consent, as if by a vote; as, he was voted a bore. (Colloq.)

To condemn; to devote; to doom. (Obs.)

Vote v. i. (past & past part. voted; pres. part. voting) To express or signify the mind, will, or preference, either viva voce, or by ballot, or by other authorized means, as in electing persons to office, in passing laws, regulations, etc., or in deciding on any proposition in which one has an interest with others. "The vote for a duelist is to assist in the prostration of justice, and, indirectly, to encourage the crime." "To vote on large principles, to vote honestly, requires a great amount of information."

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"Voting" Quotes from Famous Books

... amendments, also passed the Legislative Council, and against which the Bishop, joined by one other member, recorded an elaborate protest. But just at the heel of the session, and after several members of the Assembly voting in the majority had gone to their homes, a measure (which had been previously negatived again and again) was passed by a "majority of one vote only" (22 to 21), to re-invest the reserves—a measure which the law officers in England pronounced "unconstitutional," ...

— The Story of My Life - Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada • Egerton Ryerson

... Sorts of People to unite in this, in order for a Majority, whose Weight shou'd be sufficient to enforce it. And I think some Whigs were very unjustly reproach'd by their Brethren, as if by voting for this Bill, they wilfully exposed the late King's Person to the ...

— Franco-Gallia • Francis Hotoman

... Objections, to the other House, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two thirds of that House, it shall become a Law. But in all such Cases the Votes of both Houses shall be determined by yeas and Nays, and the Names of the Persons voting for and against the Bill shall be entered on the Journal of each House respectively. If any Bill shall not be returned by the President within ten Days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the Same shall be a Law, in like Manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress ...

— The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation • Edward Corwin

... confound all reason and to assert in substance that all actual power, whether despotic or otherwise, is representative, and therefore free. In this sense the Czar represents his whole people, just as voting men represent women who do not vote ...

— Debate On Woman Suffrage In The Senate Of The United States, - 2d Session, 49th Congress, December 8, 1886, And January 25, 1887 • Henry W. Blair, J.E. Brown, J.N. Dolph, G.G. Vest, Geo. F. Hoar.

... revulsion follows negligence. Now sober-minded but financially distressed citizens would correct the prevailing evil. The eighteenth amendment must be repealed. The people of the nation were voting to undo ...

— David Lannarck, Midget - An Adventure Story • George S. Harney

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