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secret ballot

 noun
     
secret ballot [uncountable and countable]
a way of voting in which people write their choices on a piece of paper in secret, or an act of voting in this way
by secret ballot
The chairman was elected by secret ballot.
in a secret ballot
votes cast in a secret ballot
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