secret ballot

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   a vote in which each person's choice is secret but the totaled votes are public

   Broadervote

Questions about secret ballot

What does secret ballot mean?

secret ballot means "a vote in which each person's choice is secret but the totaled votes are public".

Is secret ballot a common word?

secret ballot is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.