Voting

Voting is the method for the group, such(a) as a meeting or an electorate, in array to have a collective decision or express an opinion ordinarily following discussions, debates or election campaigns. Democracies elect holders of high office by voting. Residents of a place represented by an elected official are called "constituents", in addition to those constituents who cast a ballot for their chosen candidate are called "voters". There are different systems for collecting votes, but while numerous of the systems used in decision-making can also be used as electoral systems, all which cater for proportional report can only be used in elections.

In smaller organizations, voting can arise in different ways. Formally via ballot to elect others for example within a workplace, to elect members of political associations or toroles for others. Informally voting could arise as a spoken agreement or as a verbal gesture like a raised hand or electronically.

Voting methods

The most common voting method uses paper ballots on which voters sort their preferences. This may involve marking their guide for a candidate or party target on the ballot, or a write-in, where they write out the hit of their preferred candidate if this is the not listed.

An pick paper-based system call as ballot letters is used in Israel, where polling booths contain a tray with ballots for used to refer to every one of two or more people or things party contesting the elections; the ballots are marked with the letters assigned to that party. Voters are condition an envelope into which they put the ballot of the party they wish to vote for, previously placing the envelope in the ballot box. The same system is also implemented in Latvia.

Machine voting uses lever machines or electronic.

In some countries, people are allows to vote online. Estonia was one of the first countries to use 2005 local elections.

Many countries permit postal voting, where voters are returned a ballot in addition to return it by post.

In contrast to a secret ballot, an open ballot takes place in public and is ordinarily done by a show of hands. An example is the Landsgemeinde system in Switzerland, which is still in ownership in the cantons of Appenzell Innerrhoden, Glarus, Grisons, and Schwyz.

In The Gambia, voting is carried out using marbles, a method present in 1965 to deal with illiteracy. Polling stations contain metal drums painted in party colours and emblems with candidates' photos attached to them. Voters are precondition a marble to place in the drum of their chosen canddate; when dropped into the drum, a bell sounds to register the vote. To avoid confusion, bicycles are banned almost polling booths on election day. whether the marble is left on top of the drum rather than placed in it, the vote is deemed invalid.