voting by secret ballot

The rank-and-file teachers begin voting by secret ballot on Nov. 27.

Voting by secret ballot to protect lawmakers from reprisals, the legislators approved the measure 55 to 21.

Genuine competition, wide-scale discussion of candidates and voting by secret ballot should become a norm.

Among the radical reforms called for in The People's Charter were universal suffrage and voting by secret ballot.

The Electoral Act 1856 was an act of the government of Victoria which introduced voting by secret ballot.

In particular, the Chartist movement, which demanded universal suffrage for men, equally sized electoral districts, and voting by secret ballot, gained a widespread following.

William Gladstone's Liberal government introduced voting by secret ballot five years after the Second Reform Act had substantially increased the size of the electorate.

If only one candidate meets these conditions, he is automatically elected Speaker; otherwise, voting by secret ballot is conducted, with the winner decided by a simple majority.

Referendum Is Proposed The abortion bill has sent legislators diving for political cover, with some even talking today in the corridors of Parliament about voting by secret ballot.

The decision is in the hands of 115 voting members of the International Olympic Committee, who on Wednesday will begin the rounds of voting by secret ballot.

The election of municipal assembly delegates involves nomination by voters in nomination assemblies, compilation of posting of candidate biographies, voting by secret ballot, and recall.

In the U.S., voting by secret ballot was universal by 1892, but criminal prohibitions against paying people to vote for a particular candidate or not were instituted in 1925.

The strike began at 3 P.M. after the players, voting by secret ballot, rejected by a vote of 560 to 4 the owners' last proposal for a new collective bargaining agreement.

During the five years the Liberal government brought in many reforms, which include the replacement of open voting by secret ballot, confining elections to one day and the creation of the Supreme Court of Canada.

Elections in Cuba involves nomination of municipal candidates by voters in nomination assemblies, nomination of provincial and national candidates by candidacy commissions, voting by secret ballot, and recall elections.

In 1853, he became a member of the committee which drafted the Constitution of Victoria, and on 18 December 1855, Nicholson moved and carried a motion which stated that any Victorian electoral act should include voting by secret ballot.