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secret ballot

–noun
1. a vote in which the confidentiality of how one votes is safeguarded.
2. Australian ballot.

Origin:
1910–15
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Australian ballot  
n.  A printed ballot that bears the names of all candidates and the texts of propositions and is distributed to the voter at the polls and marked in secret. Also called secret ballot.
secret ballot  
n.  
  1. A type of voting in which each person's vote is kept secret, but the amassed votes of various groups are revealed publicly.

  2. See Australian ballot.

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