voting

voting
    n 1: a choice that is made by counting the number of people in
         favor of each alternative; "there were only 17 votes in
         favor of the motion"; "they allowed just one vote per
         person" [syn: {vote}, {ballot}, {voting}, {balloting}]
    

Voting \Vot"ing\,
   a. & n. from {Vote}, v.
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   {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.]
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Vote \Vote\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Voted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Voting}.] [Cf. F. voter.]
   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.
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         The vote for a duelist is to assist in the prostration
         of justice, and, indirectly, to encourage the crime.
                                                  --L. Beecher.
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         To vote on large principles, to vote honestly, requires
         a great amount of information.           --F. W.
                                                  Robertson.
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87 Moby Thesaurus words for "voting":
      Australian ballot, Hare system, PR, absentee voting, association,
      aye, ballot, ballot-box stuffing, canvass, canvassing, card voting,
      casting vote, cochairmanship, colonization, complicity,
      condominium, contribution, copartnership, copartnery, cotenancy,
      counting heads, cumulative system, cumulative voting,
      deciding vote, division, election fraud, enfranchisement,
      engagement, fagot vote, floating, franchise, graveyard vote,
      hand vote, having a part, involvement, joint chairmanship,
      joint control, joint ownership, joint tenancy, list system, nay,
      no, nontransferable vote, partaking, participation, partnership,
      plebiscite, plebiscitum, plumper, plural system, plural vote, poll,
      polling, preferential system, preferential voting,
      proportional representation, proxy, proxy voting, record vote,
      referendum, repeating, representation, right to vote, rising vote,
      say, secret ballot, sharing, show of hands, single system,
      single transferrable vote, single vote, single-member district,
      snap vote, straw vote, suffrage, transferable vote, viva voce,
      voice, voice vote, vote, voting machine, voting right, write-in,
      write-in vote, yea, yeas and nays, yes