What is "balloting"

Usage examples of "balloting".

Although technically any cardinal under eighty years old could become Pope, only a very few had the respect necessary to command a two-thirds majority in the ferociously partisan balloting procedure.

Mortati had waited patiently at the main altar as each cardinal, in order of seniority, had approached and performed the specific balloting procedure.

You wished that the ballotings should be burned, and a reformation of them take place.

Besides this, he made a new selection of names for the balloting purses, and divided the state into three parts.

He would then deprive the new Signory of the magistracy, appoint another, burn the present balloting purses, and by means of a new Squittini, provide themselves with friends.

The whole thing had gone on too long, two days of balloting following two days of procedural fights, and all in the middle of a sweltering Georgia summer.

He'd bought a can of cashews and a pint of whiskey downstairs and had put away most of both during the balloting.

By tradition, he couldn't appear at the convention until after the balloting, so he began working the phones.

Will and his inner circle of around two dozen people had a buffet supper in his suite as the convention opened and the balloting began.

If tempers had gotten this heated before the balloting even began , what chance was there for things to proceed rationally, once the voting did start?

Camber merely shook his head as the next ballot was taken, for the results of that balloting left them with five for Hubert, four each for Dermot and Oriss, and two for Ulliam.

Each day began with a Mass of the Holy Spirit, to implore Divine guidance, and each balloting, with its speech-making and prayer session before it, took close to half a day—which meant that only two votes might be taken each day, and the convocation did not meet on Sundays.

The balloting remained anchored at five each for Hubert, Dermot, and Oriss through six long days of deliberation and twelve deadlocked ballots.

Although eager for Bristow to win, the Reformers agree that had the balloting begun last night Blaine would have swept the convention, or as the editor of Harper’s Weekly said, “There has never been a better speech than Ingersoll’s in a worse cause.

There is no official report drawn up, no balloting, the course pursued being the most prompt.