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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

voting method of registering collective approval or disapproval of a person or a proposal. The term generally refers to the process by which citizens choose candidates for public office or decide political questions submitted to them. However, it may also describe the formal recording of opinion of a group on any subject. In either sense it is a means of transforming numerous individual desires into a coherent and collective basis for decision. In early human history voting was simply the communication of approval or disapproval by tribal members of certain proposals offered by a chieftain,... Read more

voting behaviour
A Dictionary of Sociology voting behaviour Voting is the main form of political participation in liberal democratic societies and the study of voting behaviour is a highly specialized sub-field within political science ... Read more

voting machine
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition voting machine instrument for recording and counting votes. The voting machine itself is generally positioned in a booth, often ... secrecy for the voter. In the case of older mechanical voting machines, when a voter enters the booth and closes the ... Read more

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