balloting
ba luh ting
- n a choice that is made by counting the number of people in favor of each alternative
 - v  vote by ballot
                    
                        
                            
The voters were balloting in this state 
- Could the Socialist Unity Party, as the Communists call themselves in East Germany, lose in such balloting? "Theoretically," replied Gunter Schabowski, the East Berlin party boss .
 - An oath of loyalty is recited before the balloting, and tradition holds that all voting members remain closed in the hall after a decision is reached, while a single messenger .
 - And paperless balloting in general is increasingly under fire: the government's premier science-and-technology panel last month came out against it.