0 present participle of ballot --
1 to organize a secret vote by a group of people in order to find out their views: --
Thirdly, there is the cost and the related fact that insistence on postal ballots would force change on unions which already have adequate balloting systems.
However, by common consent, current law on industrial action and, in particular, on balloting is extremely complex.
We also have reservations about the system of balloting for industrial action.
It requires a situation where the most hotly contested issues, such as absentee balloting and local election observers, are addressed beforehand.
In both states, therefore, the parties were still involved in the balloting process although their role was much restricted by comparison with the older, unofficial balloting system.
The governor suggested that these initiatives, particularly those establishing a universal franchise and a single electoral college for local balloting, be restored by administrative degrees issued by himself.
Activities among the poor are largely limited to the provision of social services, often charity, and mobilization during elections in which free balloting takes place.
In fact, he did not even get 50 % of the votes cast needed to qualify him for a second round of balloting.