short ballot

noun

a ballot containing only candidates for the most important legislative and executive posts, leaving judicial and lesser administrative posts to be filled by appointment.

First recorded in 1910–15

This incident of the "short ballot" illustrates the cleavage between invention and routine.

The "short ballot" in itself is a slight affair, but the insight behind it seems to me capable of revolutionary development.

A splendid account by the father of the short ballot movement.

President Wilson, like many of his predecessors at the National capital, is vindicating the principle of the short ballot.

Nearly three hundred of them have adopted the short ballot in charters that confer government by commission.

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