Voting, the Glossary
Voting is a method by which a group, such as a meeting or an electorate, convenes together for the purpose of making a collective decision or expressing an opinion usually following discussions, debates or election campaigns.[1]
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119 relations: Abahlali baseMjondolo, Amish, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Appenzell Innerrhoden, Approval voting, Arrow's impossibility theorem, Assemblies of Yahweh, At-large, Audience response, Ballot, Ballot access, Ballot box, Bangladesh, BBC, BBC News, Blackballing, Borda count, Canton of Glarus, Canton of Schwyz, Cantons of Switzerland, Centrism, Christadelphians, Class voting, Compulsory voting, Condorcet method, Consociationalism, Cosmopolitan democracy, Da Capo Press, Decision-making, Deliberative assembly, Democracy, Democratic globalization, Dictatorship mechanism, Direct democracy, Dollar voting, Droop quota, Election ink, Elections in Israel, Electoral district, Electoral fraud, Electoral system, Electronic voting, Electronic voting in Estonia, Exhaustive ballot, First-past-the-post voting, Gerrymandering, Grisons, Ideology, Independence of irrelevant alternatives, ... Expand index (69 more) »
Abahlali baseMjondolo
Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM,, in English: "the residents of the shacks") is a socialist shack dwellers' movement in South Africa which primarily campaigns for land, housing and dignity, to democratise society from below and against xenophobia.
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Amish
The Amish (Amisch; Amische), formally the Old Order Amish, are a group of traditionalist Anabaptist Christian church fellowships with Swiss and Alsatian origins.
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Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece (Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity, that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and other territories.
Ancient Rome
In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.
Appenzell Innerrhoden
Appenzell Innerrhoden (Kanton Appenzell Innerrhoden; Chantun Appenzell Dadens; Canton d'Appenzell Rhodes-Intérieures; Canton Appenzello Interno), in English sometimes Appenzell Inner-Rhodes, is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation.
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Approval voting
Approval voting is a single-winner electoral system in which voters mark all the candidates they support, instead of just choosing one.
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Arrow's impossibility theorem
Arrow's impossibility theorem is a key result in social choice showing that no rank-order method for collective decision-making can behave rationally or coherently.
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Assemblies of Yahweh
The Assemblies of Yahweh is a nonprofit religious organization with its international headquarters in Bethel, Pennsylvania, United States.
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At-large
At large (before a noun: at-large) is a description for members of a governing body who are elected or appointed to represent a whole membership or population (notably a city, county, state, province, nation, club or association), rather than a subset. Voting and at-large are elections.
Audience response
Audience Response is a type of interaction associated with the use of Audience Response systems to create interactivity between a presenter and their audience.
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Ballot
A ballot is a device used to cast votes in an election and may be found as a piece of paper or a small ball used in voting.
Ballot access
Ballot access are rules and procedures regulating the right to candidacy, the conditions under which a candidate, political party, or ballot measure is entitled to appear on voters' ballots in elections in the United States.
Ballot box
A ballot box is a temporarily sealed container, usually a square box though sometimes a tamper resistant bag, with a narrow slot in the top sufficient to accept a ballot paper in an election but which prevents anyone from accessing the votes cast until the close of the voting period.
Bangladesh
Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia.
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.
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BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.
Blackballing
Blackballing is a rejection in a traditional form of secret ballot, where a white ball or ballot constitutes a vote in support and a black ball signifies opposition.
Borda count
The Borda count is a family of positional voting rules which gives each candidate, for each ballot, a number of points corresponding to the number of candidates ranked lower.
Canton of Glarus
The canton of Glarus (Kanton Glarus Chantun Glaruna; Canton de Glaris; Canton Glarona) is a canton in east central Switzerland.
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Canton of Schwyz
The canton of Schwyz (Kanton Schwyz Chantun Sviz; Canton de Schwytz; Canton Svitto.) is a canton in central Switzerland between the Alps in the south, Lake Lucerne to the west and Lake Zürich in the north, centred on and named after the town of Schwyz.
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Cantons of Switzerland
The 26 cantons of Switzerland are the member states of the Swiss Confederation.
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Centrism
Centrism is the range of political ideologies that exist between left-wing politics and right-wing politics on the left–right political spectrum.
Christadelphians
The Christadelphians are a restorationist and nontrinitarian Christian denomination.
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Class voting
Class voting is the relationship between social class and voting behavior.
Compulsory voting
Compulsory voting, also called universal civic duty voting or mandatory voting, is the requirement that registered voters participate in an election. Voting and Compulsory voting are elections.
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Condorcet method
A Condorcet method is an election method that elects the candidate who wins a majority of the vote in every head-to-head election against each of the other candidates, whenever there is such a candidate.
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Consociationalism
Consociationalism is a form of democratic power sharing.
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Cosmopolitan democracy
Cosmopolitan democracy is a political theory which explores the application of norms and values of democracy at the transnational and global sphere.
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Da Capo Press
Da Capo Press is an American publishing company with headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts.
Decision-making
In psychology, decision-making (also spelled decision making and decisionmaking) is regarded as the cognitive process resulting in the selection of a belief or a course of action among several possible alternative options.
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Deliberative assembly
A deliberative assembly is a meeting of members who use parliamentary procedure. Voting and deliberative assembly are parliamentary procedure.
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Democracy
Democracy (from dēmokratía, dēmos 'people' and kratos 'rule') is a system of government in which state power is vested in the people or the general population of a state. Voting and Democracy are elections.
Democratic globalization
Democratic globalization is a social movement towards an institutional system of global democracy.
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Dictatorship mechanism
In social choice theory, a dictatorship mechanism is a degenerate voting rule or mechanism where the result depends on only one person's preferences, without considering any other voters.
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Direct democracy
Direct democracy or pure democracy is a form of democracy in which the electorate decides on policy initiatives without elected representatives as proxies.
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Dollar voting
Dollar voting is an analogy that refers to the theoretical impact of consumer choice on producers' actions by means of the flow of consumer payments to producers for their goods and services.
Droop quota
In the study of electoral systems, the Droop quota (sometimes called the '''Hagenbach-Bischoff''', Britton, or Newland-Britton quota) is the minimum number of votes needed for a party or candidate to guarantee they will win at least one seat in a legislature.
Election ink
Electoral ink, indelible ink, electoral stain or phosphoric ink is a semi-permanent ink or dye that is applied to the forefinger (usually) of voters during elections in order to prevent electoral fraud such as double voting.
Elections in Israel
Elections in Israel are based on nationwide proportional representation.
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Electoral district
An electoral district, also known as an election district, legislative district, voting district, constituency, riding, ward, division, electorate, or (election) precinct, is a subdivision of a larger state (a country, administrative region, or other polity) created to provide its population with representation in the larger state's legislature. Voting and electoral district are elections.
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Electoral fraud
Electoral fraud, sometimes referred to as election manipulation, voter fraud, or vote rigging, involves illegal interference with the process of an election, either by increasing the vote share of a favored candidate, depressing the vote share of rival candidates, or both.
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Electoral system
An electoral system or voting system is a set of rules that determine how elections and referendums are conducted and how their results are determined. Voting and electoral system are elections.
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Electronic voting
Electronic voting is voting that uses electronic means to either aid or take care of casting and counting ballots including voting time. Voting and electronic voting are elections.
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Electronic voting in Estonia
Electronic voting in Estonia gained popularity in 2001 with the "e-minded" coalition government.
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Exhaustive ballot
The exhaustive ballot is a voting system used to elect a single winner.
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First-past-the-post voting
First-preference plurality (FPP)—often shortened simply to plurality—is a single-winner system of positional voting where voters mark one candidate as their favorite, and the candidate with the largest number of points (a '''''plurality''''' of points) is elected.
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Gerrymandering
In representative electoral systems, gerrymandering (originally) is the political manipulation of electoral district boundaries with the intent to create undue advantage for a party, group, or socioeconomic class within the constituency.
Grisons
The Grisons or Graubünden,Names include.
Ideology
An ideology is a set of beliefs or philosophies attributed to a person or group of persons, especially those held for reasons that are not purely epistemic, in which "practical elements are as prominent as theoretical ones".
Independence of irrelevant alternatives
Independence of irrelevant alternatives (IIA), also known as binary independence, the independence axiom, is an axiom of decision theory and economics describing a necessary condition for rational behavior.
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Instant-runoff voting
Instant-runoff voting (IRV), also known as ranked-choice voting or the alternative vote (AV), combines ranked voting (in which voters rank candidates rather than choosing only a single preferred candidate) together with a system for choosing winners from these rankings by repeatedly eliminating the candidate with the fewest first-place votes and reassigning their votes until only one candidate is left.
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Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan was a presidential republic in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2021.
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Jehovah's Witnesses
Jehovah's Witnesses is a nontrinitarian, millenarian, restorationist Christian denomination.
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Keypad polling
Keypad Polling is a wireless polling technology.
Landless People's Movement
The Landless People's Movement is an independent social movement in South Africa.
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Landsgemeinde
The Landsgemeinde ("cantonal assembly";, plural Landsgemeinden) is a public, non-secret ballot voting system operating by majority rule, which constitutes one of the oldest forms of direct democracy.
Latvia
Latvia (Latvija), officially the Republic of Latvia, is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe.
Limited voting
Limited voting (also known as partial block voting) is a voting system in which electors have fewer votes than there are positions available.
Literacy
Literacy is the ability to read and write.
Majority rule
Majority rule is the principle that a group which has more than half of all voters should be allowed to make the decisions for a group.
Mandate (politics)
In representative democracies, a mandate is a perceived legitimacy to rule through popular support. Voting and mandate (politics) are elections.
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Moment (magazine)
Moment is an independent magazine which focuses on the life of the American Jewish community.
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Motion (parliamentary procedure)
In certain countries, a motion in parliamentary procedure is a formal proposal by a member of a deliberative assembly that the assembly take certain action.
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No Land! No House! No Vote!
No Land! No House! No Vote! is the name of a campaign by a number of poor people's movements in South Africa that calls for the boycotting of the vote and a general rejection of party politics and vote banking.
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Non-resident citizen voting
As of 2020 a total of 141 countries grant expatriates the right to vote in elections in their countries of origin.
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None of the above
"None of the above" (NOTA), or none for short, also known as "against all" or a "scratch" vote, is a ballot option in some jurisdictions or organizations, designed to allow the voter to indicate disapproval of the candidates in a voting system.
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Open ballot system
An open ballot system is a voting method in which voters vote openly, in contrast to a secret ballot, where a voter's choices are confidential.
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Opinion poll
An opinion poll, often simply referred to as a survey or a poll (although strictly a poll is an actual election), is a human research survey of public opinion from a particular sample.
Pareto efficiency
In welfare economics, a Pareto improvement formalizes the idea of an outcome being "better in every possible way".
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Parliamentary procedure
Parliamentary procedures are the accepted rules, ethics, and customs governing meetings of an assembly or organization.
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Plurality block voting
Block plurality voting is a winner-take-all method for multi-winner elections.
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Plurality voting
Plurality voting refers to electoral systems in which the candidate in an electoral district who poll more than any other (that is, receive a plurality) are elected.
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Political base
In politics, the term base refers to a group of voters who always support a single political party's candidates for elected office.
Political campaign
A political campaign is an organized effort which seeks to influence the decision making progress within a specific group.
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Political polarization
Political polarization (spelled polarisation in British English, African and Caribbean English, and New Zealand English) is the divergence of political attitudes away from the center, towards ideological extremes.
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Polling station
A polling place is where voters cast their ballots in elections. Voting and polling station are elections.
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Popular initiative
A popular initiative (also citizens' initiative) is a form of direct democracy by which a petition meeting certain hurdles can force a legal procedure on a proposition.
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Postal voting
Postal voting is voting in an election where ballot papers are distributed to electors (and typically returned) by post, in contrast to electors voting in person at a polling station or electronically via an electronic voting system. Voting and Postal voting are elections.
Presidential election
A presidential election is the election of any head of state whose official title is President.
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Proportional representation
Proportional representation (PR) refers to any type of electoral system under which subgroups of an electorate are reflected proportionately in the elected body.
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Protest vote
A protest vote (also called a blank, null, spoiled, or "none of the above" vote) is a vote cast in an election to demonstrate dissatisfaction with the choice of candidates or the current political system. Voting and protest vote are elections.
Psephology
Psephology (from Greek label) is the study of elections and voting. Voting and Psephology are elections.
Quota Borda system
The Quota Borda system or quota preference score is a voting system that was devised by the British philosopher Michael Dummett and first published in 1984 in his book, Voting Procedures, and again in his Principles of Electoral Reform.
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Ranked voting
Ranked voting is any voting system that uses voters' orderings (rankings) of candidates to choose a single winner.
Rastafari
Rastafari, sometimes called Rastafarianism, is an Abrahamic religion that developed in Jamaica during the 1930s.
Rated voting
Rated voting refers to any electoral system which allows the voter to give each candidate an independent evaluation, typically a rating or grade.
Redistricting
Redistricting in the United States is the process of drawing electoral district boundaries.
Referendum
A referendum (referendums or less commonly referenda) is a direct vote by the electorate on a proposal, law, or political issue.
Religious denomination
A religious denomination is a subgroup within a religion that operates under a common name and tradition, among other activities.
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Robert's Rules of Order
Robert's Rules of Order, often simply referred to as Robert's Rules, is a manual of parliamentary procedure by U.S. Army officer Henry Martyn Robert. Voting and Robert's Rules of Order are parliamentary procedure.
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Secret ballot
The secret ballot, also known as the Australian ballot, is a voting method in which a voter's identity in an election or a referendum is anonymous. Voting and secret ballot are elections.
Single non-transferable vote
Single non-transferable vote or SNTV is an electoral system used to elect multiple winners.
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Single transferable vote
The single transferable vote (STV), sometimes mistakenly conflated with proportional ranked choice voting (P-RCV), is a multi-winner electoral system in which each voter casts a single vote in the form of a ranked-choice ballot.
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Slate (magazine)
Slate is an online magazine that covers current affairs, politics, and culture in the United States.
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Smithsonian Institution
The Smithsonian Institution, or simply the Smithsonian, is a group of museums, education and research centers, the largest such complex in the world, created by the U.S. government "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge." Founded on August 10, 1846, it operates as a trust instrumentality and is not formally a part of any of the three branches of the federal government.
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Social choice theory is the branch of welfare economics which studies processes of collective decision-making.
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Spoiler effect
In social choice theory and politics, the spoiler effect or '''Arrow's paradox''' refers to a situation where a losing (that is, irrelevant) candidate affects the results of an election.
Suffrage
Suffrage, political franchise, or simply franchise is the right to vote in public, political elections and referendums (although the term is sometimes used for any right to vote).
The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.
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The Economist
The Economist is a British weekly newspaper published in printed magazine format and digitally.
The Gambia
The Gambia, officially the Republic of The Gambia, is a country in West Africa.
Two-party system
A two-party system is a political party system in which two major political parties consistently dominate the political landscape. Voting and two-party system are elections.
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Two-round system
The two-round system (TRS or 2RS), also called ballotage, top-two runoff, or two-round plurality (as originally termed in French), is a voting method used to elect a single winner.
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Unanimous consent
In parliamentary procedure, unanimous consent, also known as general consent, or in the case of the parliaments under the Westminster system, leave of the house (or leave of the senate), is a situation in which no member present objects to a proposal. Voting and unanimous consent are parliamentary procedure.
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University of Michigan
The University of Michigan (U-M, UMich, or simply Michigan) is a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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Unrestricted domain
In social choice theory, unrestricted domain, or universality, is a property of social welfare functions in which all preferences of all voters (but no other considerations) are allowed.
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Voice vote
In parliamentary procedure, a voice vote (from the Latin viva voce, meaning "by live voice") or acclamation is a voting method in deliberative assemblies (such as legislatures) in which a group vote is taken on a topic or motion by responding vocally. Voting and voice vote are parliamentary procedure.
Voter turnout
In political science, voter turnout is the participation rate (often defined as those who cast a ballot) of a given election.
Voting advice application
A voting advice application or voting aid application (VAA) or vote matcher or vote compass or election compass is an application that helps voters find a political candidate or political party that stands closest to their preferences.
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Voting bloc
A voting bloc is a group of voters that are strongly motivated by a specific common concern or group of concerns to the point that such specific concerns tend to dominate their voting patterns, causing them to vote together in elections.
Voting in Switzerland
Voting in Switzerland (called votation) is the process by which Swiss citizens make decisions about governance and elect officials.
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Voting machine
A voting machine is a machine used to record votes in an election without paper.
Voting methods in deliberative assemblies
Deliberative assemblies – bodies that use parliamentary procedure to arrive at decisions – use several methods of voting on motions (formal proposal by members of a deliberative assembly that the assembly take certain action). Voting and voting methods in deliberative assemblies are parliamentary procedure.
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Wasted vote
In electoral systems, a wasted vote is any vote cast that does not impact the final election outcome.
Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign
The Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign was a non-racial popular movement made up of poor and oppressed communities in Cape Town, South Africa.
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Write-in candidate
A write-in candidate is a candidate whose name does not appear on the ballot but seeks election by asking voters to cast a vote for the candidate by physically writing in the person's name on the ballot.
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Zapatista Army of National Liberation
The Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), often referred to as the Zapatistas (Mexican), is a far-left political and militant group that controlled a substantial amount of territory in Chiapas, the southernmost state of Mexico.
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2006 Panama Canal expansion referendum
A referendum on expansion of the Panama Canal was held in Panama on October 22, 2006.
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2007 French presidential election
Presidential elections were held in France on 21 and 22 April 2007 to elect the successor to Jacques Chirac as president of France (and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra) for a five-year term.
See Voting and 2007 French presidential election
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting
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