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Ticket :: Ticket (v.) A printed list of candidates to be voted for at an election; a set of nominations by one party for election; a ballot.

Vocal :: Vocal (n.) A man who has a right to vote in certain elections.

Poll :: Poll (v. i.) To vote at an election.

Adversaria :: Adversaria (n. pl.) A miscellaneous collection of notes, remarks, or selections; a commonplace book; also, commentaries or notes..

Conventional :: Conventional (a.) Abstracted; removed from close representation of nature by the deliberate selection of what is to be represented and what is to be rejected; as, a conventional flower; a conventional shell. Cf. Conventionalize, v. t..

Plurality :: Plurality (n.) The greater number; a majority; also, the greatest of several numbers; in elections, the excess of the votes given for one candidate over those given for another, or for any other, candidate. When there are more than two candidates, the one who receives the plurality of votes may have less than a majority. See Majority..

Scrutiny :: Scrutiny (n.) An examination by a committee of the votes given at an election, for the purpose of correcting the poll..

Election :: Election (a.) The act of choosing; choice; selection.

Selection :: Selection (n.) That which is selected; a collection of things chosen; as, a choice selection of books..

Analectic :: Analectic (a.) Relating to analects; made up of selections; as, an analectic magazine..

Reading :: Reading (n.) A lecture or prelection; public recital.

Election :: Election (a.) Power of choosing; free will; liberty to choose or act.

Return :: Return (v. t.) To render, as an account, usually an official account, to a superior; to report officially by a list or statement; as, to return a list of stores, of killed or wounded; to return the result of an election..

Nonelection :: Nonelection (n.) Failure of election.

Processional :: Processional (n.) A hymn, or other selection, sung during a church procession; as, the processional was the 202d hymn..

Infralapsarian :: Infralapsarian (n.) One of that class of Calvinists who consider the decree of election as contemplating the apostasy as past and the elect as being at the time of election in a fallen and guilty state; -- opposed to Supralapsarian. The former considered the election of grace as a remedy for an existing evil; the latter regarded the fall as a part of God's original purpose in regard to men.

Rota :: Rota (n.) A short-lived political club established in 1659 by J.Harrington to inculcate the democratic doctrine of election of the principal officers of the state by ballot, and the annual retirement of a portion of Parliament..

Elective :: Elective (a.) Dependent on choice; bestowed or passing by election; as, an elective study; an elective office..

Psychogenesis :: Psychogenesis (n.) Genesis through an internal force, as opposed to natural selection..

Conclave :: Conclave (n.) The body of cardinals shut up in the conclave for the election of a pope; hence, the body of cardinals..

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