BALLOTS Synonyms: 23 Similar and Opposite Words

ballots

noun

plural of ballot

as in votes

a piece of paper indicating a person's preferences in an election we collected all of the ballots from the students voting for class president

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Relevance

as in suffrages

the right to formally express one's position or will in an election believes that even convicted felons should have the ballot

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disenfranchisements

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Recent Examples of ballots Every year, more than 27,000 members of the Television Academy — actors and editors, showrunners and composers, the people who actually make television — sit down with their ballots and decide who walks away with an Emmy. — Clayton Davis, Variety, 27 Aug. 2026 The state accepts absentee and overseas ballots up to 10 days after the primary as long as they were postmarked by Election Day. — CBS News, 26 Aug. 2026 Applications for requesting absentee ballots are already open in Georgia and officials face looming deadlines for sending ballots. — Caleb Groves, AJC.com, 26 Aug. 2026 The state accepts absentee and overseas ballots up to 10 days after the primary as long as they were postmarked by election day. — ABC News, 26 Aug. 2026 For example, North Carolina begins sending ballots out the first week of September. — Sarah D. Wire, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2026 In February, Curtis was the first person to publicly announce Bianco planned to confiscate the ballots. — Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026 His abrupt exit upended the crowded primary race and injected fresh uncertainty into it just weeks before mail-in ballots were sent out. — Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 20 Aug. 2026 Wahab had 51,610 votes to Hernandez’s 45,598, an insurmountable margin with just 255 ballots left to cure. — Kyle Martin, Mercury News, 20 Aug. 2026

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votes

Noun

In any event, Bret is sufficiently moved to start lying and counting extra votes for Debbie.

— Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2026
Mazzei did best with votes cast on Election Day, after Drummond had criticized the president’s plan to import beef to ameliorate the effects of his tariffs.

— David Weigel, semafor.com, 26 Aug. 2026

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